TVEL Fuel Company

TVEL Fuel Company is a division of Rosatom State Corporation. Basic activities of the TVEL Fuel Company are focused on development, fabrication and sales (including export sales) of nuclear fuel and associated nonnuclear products.

TVEL includes large Russian enterprises that specialize in fabrication, supply and scientific and engineering support of nuclear fuel operation at NPPs of Russia and both near and far abroad countries.

Among the affiliated companies of TVEL there are enterprises producing gas centrifuges, separating and sublimation and fuel fabrication plants.

TVEL completely meets the needs in nuclear fuel of Russia atomic energy sector. All Russian NPPs, research reactors and navy transport plants use fuel of TVEL.

Nowadays nuclear fuel of TVEL, JCS is applied at NPPs of Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands. Fuel Company enterprises manufacture fuel for nuclear power plants of China, India and Iran. In total, TVEL, JSC provides for the needs of 76 power reactors in Russia, and in 15 European and Asian countries (17% of the world market), as well as for 30 research reactors throughout the world.

Besides its main product, nuclear fuel, TVEL supplies Russian markets with such nonnuclear production as zirconium, lithium, calcium and other materials.

The Fuel Company Activities include production of fuel assemblies and components for them, as well as services for development, licensing, and scientific and technical support of fuel operation (including the provision of guarantees on nuclear reactors cores operation).

One of the priorities of the Fuel Company is also nuclear, radiation, environmental and industrial safety observance.

TK “TVEL” combines production and research assets in the field of nuclear fuel fabrication, separation-sublimation complex, as well as the manufacture of gas centrifuges and equipment for them. In addition to the main product – a nuclear fuel, we supply the Russian and world markets with non-nuclear products: zirconium, lithium, calcium, magnets, thin-walled tubes, polishing powders, wire addition system, zeolite catalysts and other materials. The main product sales areas are CIS countries (Ukraine, Armenia), Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Finland), as well as Western Europe and Asian countries. Nuclear plants in China and India operate on TVEL nuclear fuel as well. In addition, our company produces fuel for nuclear power plants in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands in cooperation with a foreign partner.

OJSC “TVEL” fully meets the needs of total of 76 power reactors in Russia and 15 other countries in Europe and Asia (17% global market share), 30 research reactors worldwide.

Enterprises

Gas Centrifuges manufacturing:

• OJSC “Vladimirskoe proizvodstvennoe obyedinenie “Tochmash”
• OJSC “Kovrovsky mekhanichesky zavod”
• OJSC “Novouralsky priborny zavod”
• OJSC “Uralsky zavod gazovyh tsentrifug”

Nuclear Fuel Fabrication:

• OJSC “Novosibirsky zavod khimkontsentratov”
• OJSC “Tchepetsky mekhanichesky zavod”
• OJSC “Mashinostroitelny zavod”
• OJSC “Moscowsky zavod polimetallov”

Separation-sublimation complex:

• OJSC “Angarsky elektrolizny khimichesky kombinat”
• OJSC “PO “Elektrokhimichesky zavod”
• OJSC “Uralsky electrokhimichesky kombinat”
• OJSC “Sibirsky khimichesky kombinat”

Scientific and design-engineering assets:

• CJSC “Tsentrotekh-SPb”
• CJSC “OKB-Nizhny Novgorod”
• LLC “Uralsky nauchno-konstruktorsky tsentr”
• OJSC “VNIINM im. A.A. Bochvara”

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