According to the president, the administrative reform and the upgrading of government's activity have led to the conclusion that the Defense Ministry will directly supervise the nuclear sphere as regards the nuclear defense sector.
According to Alexander Rumyantsev, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy, "the transformation of the ministry into the agency was completed by July 1, but all the administrative changes did not prevent all the orders from being implemented on time."
In particular, Rumyantsev noted that the agency had conducted "non-nuclear explosive experiments on the Novaya Zemlya field together with the 12th Main Department of the Defense Ministry. Rumyantsev also said that these experiments were held every year "to provide reliability, combat readiness and security of nuclear munitions."
Rumyantsev added that the agency was fully financed, which made it possible to make small reserves for this and next year, in particular, for the development of new types of weapons.
Alexander Rumyantsev presented to the president the provision on the agency, noting the consolidated interaction between the agency and the Russian Defense Ministry.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov reported to the conferees that the Defense Ministry cooperated with the Nuclear Energy Agency in three directions: the first one - the formation and implementation of the state defense order and the state program for armaments in nuclear security; the second - the development and production, modernization, exploitation and mothballing of nuclear weapons; the third - joint efforts to maintain and develop the only nuclear testing range in Novaya Zemlya.
"These are the directions where the Defense Ministry and the Federal Agency will cooperate," said Ivanov.
