The Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom; russian: Министерство атомной энергетики СССР) was a

government ministry Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энцикло� ...

in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. Created soon after the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

, the ministry assumed responsibility for all nuclear energy in the USSR while the control of individual atomic stations remained with the

State Committee for the Utilization of Atomic Energy State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

(GKAE).

List of ministers

''Source'': * (9 September 1986 - 17 July 1989) *

Vitaliy Konovalov Vitaliy Konovalov (14 September 1932–9 May 2013) was a Soviet politician who served as the Ministry of Atomic Energy, minister of atomic energy and industry. In 1998 he established a nuclear fuel cycle company, TVEL, JSC TVEL. Early life and e ...

(17 July 1989 - 24 August 1991)

References

Atomic Energy Atomic energy or energy of atoms is energy carried by atoms. The term originated in 1903 when Ernest Rutherford began to speak of the possibility of atomic energy.Isaac Asimov, ''Atom: Journey Across the Sub-Atomic Cosmos'', New York:1992 Plume, ...

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