Yevgeny Olegowitsch Adamow

Yevgeny Adamov and Vladimir Putin (2000)

Evgeni Olegowitsch Adamow ( Russian Евгений Олегович Адамов ; born April 28, 1939 in Moscow ) is a Russian atomic scientist. He was Minister for Atomic Energy from 1998 to 2001.

Life

Adamov studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute until 1962 and received a doctorate in engineering . In 1962 he was appointed deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , Adamov took over as general designer in November 1986 at the Dolleschal Research and Design Institute for Energy Technology (NIKIET) in Moscow, which had designed the RBMK reactor used in Chernobyl .

In 1998 Adamov was appointed Minister of Atomic Energy in the Primakov government. He also held this office under Prime Minister Stepashin and Putin . In 2000 the new head of government Kasyanov also called him back into office.

During his tenure, Adamov came under heavy criticism for his plans to import nuclear waste . At the same time he was accused of corruption . In 2001 Adamow became involved in investigations by the Anti-Corruption Committee. It was revealed that during his tenure, contrary to the law, he had founded several companies in Russia and abroad. Adamov had become untenable. On March 28, 2001, President Putin dismissed him from office.

Adamow has been working at the Dolleschal Institute again since 2001. Adamow is a member of the Russian Academy of Engineering and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Against former politician who since 1993 founder and co-owner of the company "Energo Pool" in Monroeville , Pennsylvania has been in the United States an arrest warrant for money laundering issued in on 2 May 2005 Bern was completed. He is accused of illegally transferring money to Russia in favor of the local nuclear industry. Adamow appealed against his extradition to the USA, which was decided in November 2005.

Switzerland refused to accept the US application to extradite Adamow. Instead, Adamov was extradited to Russia on December 30, 2005, where he was released again in 2008.

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