TVEL
- TVEL (Russian: ТВЭЛ, fuel rod.
Parent Atomenergoprom (Rosatom) | | |
| Website | www.tvel.ru | |
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The TVEL Fuel Company (TVEL) is a Rosatom-owned nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Moscow. It has operated since 1996.
History and operations
The company was founded by Vitaliy Konovalov in 1996.[2] He headed the company until 2000.[2]
It works mainly in uranium enrichment and the production of nuclear fuel. TVEL belongs to the Atomenergoprom holding company (part of Rosatom).
TVEL supplies fuel to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, Finland, China and India. In the world, 73 power reactors (17% of the world market by number) and 30 research reactors are currently running with TVEL made fuel.[citation needed]
TVEL is developing the TVS-K fuel assembly for Western-designed reactors. In 2017 TVS-K was in pilot usage at Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant,[3] and larger trials in the French supplied reactors at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station are planned.[4][5]
The chairman of the board of directors is Yuri Olenin.[6] The president of TVEL is Natalia Nikipelova.[7]
Subsidiaries
- Nuclear fuel production[8]
- Mashinostroitelny Zavod Elektrostal
- Novosibirsk Plant of Chemical Concentrates
- Chepetsky Mechanical Plant
- Moscow Plant of Polymetals
- Separation-sublimation assets[9]
- Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine
- Zelenogorsk Electrochemical Plant
- Siberian Chemical Combine
- Ural Electrochemical Plant
- Research institutes and design bureaus[10]
- Central Design and Technology Institute
- VNIINM
- Novouralsk Scientific and Design Center
- OKB-Nizhny Novgorod
- Centrotech-SPb
- Uralpribor
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "Консолидированная финансовая отчетность по МСФО за 2017 год" (PDF). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Company History". JSC TVEL. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ "A Russian export brand". Nuclear Engineering International. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ "Russia offers fuel design for Western PWRs". Nuclear Engineering International. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "South Africa's Necsa and Russia's TVEL sign nuclear fuel MoU". World Nuclear News. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ^ "Board of Directors".
- ^ "President".
- ^ "Фабрикация ядерного топлива". Tvel.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Разделительно-сублиматный комплекс". Tvel.ru. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Научно-конструкторский блок". Tvel.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
External links
- Official website (in Russian)
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