Nuclear fuel company based in Russia
TVEL (Russian: ТВЭЛ , romanized : tvel ) is also a Russian abbreviation of the "heat-releasing element", fuel rod .
TVEL Building in Moscow
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]
Separation-sublimation assets[ 9]
Research institutes and design bureaus[ 10]
See also
References
External links
Nuclear fuel production Separative-sublimate assets