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TVEL

The TVEL Fuel Company (TVEL) is a Rosatom-owned nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Moscow. It has operated since 1996.

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TVEL (Russian: ТВЭЛ, romanized: tvel) is also a Russian abbreviation of the Russian: тепловыделяющий элемент, romanized: teplovydelyayushchiy element meaning "heat-releasing element", fuel rod.
TVEL Fuel Company
Company type
Open joint stock company
IndustryNuclear industry
Founded1996
HeadquartersMoscow
Key people
Vitaliy Konovalov (Founder)
Sergei Sobyanin (Chairman of the board)
Anton Badenkov (Acting president)
ProductsNuclear fuel
Revenue$3.17 billion1 (2017)
$983 million1 (2017)
$82 million1 (2017)
Total assets$6.76 billion1 (2017)
Total equity$5.45 billion1 (2017)
ParentAtomenergoprom (Rosatom)
Websitewww.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.

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.45

The chairman of the board of directors is Yuri Olenin.6 The president of TVEL is Natalia Nikipelova.7

Subsidiaries

Nuclear fuel production8
Separation-sublimation assets9
Research institutes and design bureaus10
  • Central Design and Technology Institute
  • VNIINM
  • Novouralsk Scientific and Design Center
  • OKB-Nizhny Novgorod
  • Centrotech-SPb
  • Uralpribor
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Консолидированная финансовая отчетность по МСФО за 2017 год" (PDF). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. "Company History". JSC TVEL. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. "A Russian export brand". Nuclear Engineering International. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. "Russia offers fuel design for Western PWRs". Nuclear Engineering International. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  5. "South Africa's Necsa and Russia's TVEL sign nuclear fuel MoU". World Nuclear News. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  6. "Board of Directors".
  7. "President".
  8. "Фабрикация ядерного топлива". Tvel.ru. Archived from the original on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  9. "Разделительно-сублиматный комплекс". Tvel.ru. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  10. "Научно-конструкторский блок". Tvel.ru. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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