ST. PETERSBURG, October 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's industrial safety regulator will announce on Saturday the findings of a probe into the causes of a catastrophic water surge at the country's largest hydropower plant in August.
The August 17 disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant on Siberia's Yenisei River destroyed a turbine hall and killed 75 people.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Friday that the regulator, Rostekhnadzor, will announce its findings to a government committee overseeing the repair work, which will convene later today.
"I do not think this will be an official report, but the main conclusions will be given," he told reporters.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier called for a thorough and objective investigation into the disaster.
Sechin has said the accident was caused, among other things, by poor technical supervision on the part of the plant's management.
Nikolai Kutyin, who heads Rostekhnadzor, hinted that the report would point to "technical and administrative faults."
Putin also demanded that equipment at all hydroelectric plants across the country be checked, and proposed drafting a set of common regulations for their operation as a preventive measure.
"Technical safety, the protection of people's lives must be the priority," the Russian premier said.
