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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Russia blames top officials over hydro disaster AFP - Sunday, October 4 Send IM Story Print Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky in August 2009. Russia Saturday blamed a number of high-ranking officials, including the ex-head of state electricity monopoly Anatoly Chubais, over the disaster at its biggest hydroelectric plant that killed 75 people in August. MOSCOW (AFP) - – Russia Saturday blamed a number of high-ranking officials, including the ex-head of state electricity monopoly Anatoly Chubais, over the disaster at its biggest hydroelectric plant that killed 75 people in August. The long-awaited report published by state technology watchdog Rostechnadzor outlined a string of technical shortcomings and human errors which led a catastrophe that drew comparisons with the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. Chubais was the supremo of Russia's 1990s privatization drive under president Boris Yeltsin that sold off major assets at knock-down prices to the so-called oligarchs which did not endear him to ordinary Russians. The former deputy prime minister was named in his capacity as the former head of electricity monopoly UES along with five other high ranking UES and government officials. The six people were "linked to creating the conditions that could lead to a disaster" at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in southern Siberia on August 17, the report said, quoted by all of Russia's main news agencies. Among the other officials named in this respect were Igor Yusufov, Russia's energy minister until 2004 and Viyacheslav Sinugin, a current deputy energy minister. Rostechnadzor head Nikolai Kutyin said the plant's second turbine at the centre of the disaster "had been put into operation in 2000 despite technical deficiencies." Chubais, head of the now defunct UES from 1998-2008, had personally signed off on the start of its operation, the report said, adding he had done this "without properly evaluating the security situation". His implication in the disaster had not been predicted by Russian media ahead of publication of the report. Meanwhile, the names of 18 other officials, including Vasily Zubakin the head of the Roshydro company that managed the plant, were named in connection with failing to prevent the disaster. The level of metal fatigue on some of the fittings had reached 98 percent, Kutyin said. But Kutyin said it was not the job of Rostechnadzor to give any opinion regarding legal responsibility, which would be decided by a court. "We are a democratic state... We are not naming the guilty. That is for a court," he said at a news conference carried live on state television. In a damning condemnation of management errors at the plant, he listed "ageing metal" and "mistaken operational decisions on the part of the management" as contributing to the disaster. He confirmed that the direct cause of the disaster was when a turbine broke away due to poor fittings, causing water to flood the main hall at the plant. But this in turn had been caused "by a number of causes, dating back to before the disaster." The report said that screw nuts had been absent from some of the turbine's fittings and the outdated equipment had been overwhelmed after a fire at a nearby hydro-electric plant in the city of Bratsk. Kutyin said the investigation had unequivocally ruled out any possibility that a terror attack had been the cause of the disaster. A radical Islamist group, Riyadus Salikhiin, claimed it triggered the disaster by detonating an anti-tank grenade in the plant's turbine hall as part of a campaign of "economic war" against Russia. Work on the dam -- an awesome concrete monolith spanning the mighty Yenisei River -- began in the 1960s and it had been hailed as a triumph of Soviet engineering. But the disaster prompted President Dmitry Medvedev to admit that Moscow, which saw itself as a world leader in engineering under the Soviet Union, was now "very far behind" other countries. 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