Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the light water VVER nuclear reactors built by Russia in foreign countries, including India, was killed in a plane crash in Russia that claimed at least 44 lives.
Ryzhov was the chief designer of light water VVER reactors. Russia has built many nuclear power plants abroad with this reactor, including one in Kudankulam in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The whole leadership of the designers units of Russia's state nuclear corporation was killed when a Tu-134 passenger plane crash landed on a highway in heavy fog and burst into flames in northern republic of Karelia.
The plane belonging to the Rus-Air airlines was flying from Moscow to the Karelian capital Petrozavodsk when it crash landed on a highway.
According to Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov senior officials of two more units of the nuclear corporation including the chief technology officer of Afrikantov Design Bureau of nuclear engineering Andrei Trofimov and Valery Lyalin, chief of department of 'Atomenergomash'- the main producer of nuclear power equipment in Russia - were also killed in the Tu-134 crash.
22/06/11 Business Ghana
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