Part of Russia’s plans to build Rosatom, the state nuclear power corporation, will include the setting up of a national nuclear energy university, to be based at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Unified Energy System (UES) has completed the restructuring of the thermal power sector as part of a broader electric power system reform. Russia’s Resources Ministry could ease access to state auctions of large oil, gas or metal deposits by foreign companies, but is to tighten control over large equity deals. Gazprom, Russia’s biggest supplier of natural gas for power plants, paid almost $850 million for new shares in OAO OGK-6, Russia’s third-largest power generator by capacity.