TVEL
The TVEL Fuel Company 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. He headed the company until 2000.It works mainly in uranium enrichment and the production of nuclear fuel. TVEL belongs to the Atomenergoprom holding company.
TVEL supplies fuel to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, Finland, China and India. In the world, 73 power reactors 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, and larger trials in the French supplied reactors at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station are planned.
The chairman of the board of directors is Yuri Olenin. The president of TVEL is Natalia Nikipelova.
Subsidiaries
;Nuclear fuel production- Mashinostroitelny Zavod Elektrostal
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- Chepetsky Mechanical Plant
- Moscow Plant of Polymetals
- Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine
- Zelenogorsk Electrochemical Plant
- Siberian Chemical Combine
- Ural Electrochemical Plant
- Central Design and Technology Institute
- VNIINM
- Novouralsk Scientific and Design Center
- OKB-Nizhny Novgorod
- Centrotech-SPb
- Uralpribor