Preventing Nuclear Meltdown: Managing Decentralization of Russia's Nuclear Complex

by MOLTZ,JAMES CLAY

• ISBN13: 9780754642572
• ISBN10: 0754642577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The decline in central financing for Russia's nuclear complex and the known interest of terrorist groups in acquiring fissile material and technologies, has made the state of Russia's far-flung nuclear enterprises a pressing international issue.In this important volume, a group of leading US and Russian policy experts - drawing on extensive interviews with officials, facility personnel, and analysts in Russia's regions - explores the intersecting problems of Russian nuclear insecurity and decentralization, including the growing influence of regional, political and economic forces.The work presents insights into both nuclear safety issues and post-Soviet intra-agency governance, as well as detailed case studies of critical nuclear regions: the Far East, the Urals, Siberia, and the Volga area. The volume also offers major new findings on the interface linking Russia's evolving center-periphery relations, its ailing nuclear facilities, and the role played by foreign assistance providers.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Key Nuclear-Related Sites in Russia	xii
1 Introduction: Russia's Nuclear Regions
James Clay Moltz	1	(20)
PART I: FEDERAL NUCLEAR AGENCIES AND THE REGIONS
2 Center-Periphery Relations and Russia's Nuclear Infrastructure
Dmitry Evstafiev and Vladimir A. Orlov	21	(16)
3 Russian Nuclear Regionalism at the Federal Center
Nikolai Sokov and Adam N. Stulberg	37	(27)
4 Minatom's Regional Strategy
Sonia Ben Ouagrham	64	(15)
5 The Military, the Regions, and Nuclear Weapons
Michael Jasinski	79	(26)
PART II: CASE STUDIES OF RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR REGIONS
6 Nuclear Issues in the Far Eastern Federal Okrug
Cristina Chuen	105	(30)
7 Nuclear Issues in the Volga Federal Okrug
Ivan Safranchuk	135	(22)
8 Nuclear Issues in the Urals Federal Okrug
Elena Sokova	157	(27)
9 Nuclear Issues in the Siberian Federal Okrug
Dmitry Kovchegin	184	(27)
PART III: THE EXPERIENCE OF U.S. ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND CONCLUSIONS
10 The Implementation of U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance Programs in Russia's Regions
Michael Jasinski and Charles Thornton	211	(23)
11 Nuclear Decentralization in Russia: Lessons Learned and New Directions
Adam N. Stulberg	234	(20)
Index	254