Isaev Vladimir Vasilyevich

Biography

2024: Appointment as General Director of FSUE Zaporizhzhya NPP

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree appointing Vladislav Isaev as General Director of FSUE Zaporizhzhya NPP. The corresponding document was published on April 1, 2024. It follows from it that Isaev was appointed head of the enterprise for a period of two years.

As specified in the ZNPP Telegram channel, by April 1, 2024, the station is owned by Russia at FSUE Zaporizhzhya NPP, while the right to manage the station from October 2022 belongs to JSC Operating Organization of ZNPP, which from the same moment is headed by Oleg Romanenko. The director of the separate subdivision (OP) of Zaporizhzhya NPP is Yuri Chernichuk. Before being appointed to the post of First Deputy Director of JSC EO ZARES - Director of ZARES Chernichuk was the chief engineer of the station and worked in the Ukrainian Energoatom.

source = ZNPP

In March 2024, Chernichuk reported that after the shelling of the ZPP by Ukrainian troops, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be notified of this. He clarified that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) dropped an explosive device five meters from the fuel storage facility.

During inspections of the station on March 29, 2024, IAEA experts found no problems with nuclear safety. At the same time, it is noted that explosions were heard daily at different distances from the nuclear power plant.

On March 22, 2024, one of the two electric lines supplying the station was disconnected at the ZPP, on the same day it was restored.

The website of the Zaporizhzhya NPP reports that by April 2024, the reactor plant of unit No. 5 is the only one in a state of "hot shutdown." The remaining five units are in standby and medium repair, and their reactor plants are in the state of "cold shutdown" or "shutdown for repair." Violations in the operation of nuclear power plants are not recorded, the website says.

Government of the Russian Federation Order of April 1, 2024 No. 769-r