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RBMK reactor fuel
The RBMK-1000 and RBMK-1500 fuel assemblies with burnable poison are made of zirconium alloys. Their life is up to 8 years to ensure nuclear safety and good economics. RBMK-1000 fuel assemblies widely use the recovered nuclear fuel.
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TVEL Fuel Company Address:
49 Kashirskoe shosse,
Moscow 115409
Tel.: +7 495 239-49-22,
+7 495 988-8282 (commutator)
Fax: +7 495 988-8383 ext. 6956
E-mail: info@tvel.ru |
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While pursuing safety enhancement at all its incorporated enterprises, JSC TVEL has built and made functional an automated system for nuclear material control and accounting.
Being guided by orders of Minatom of Russia (now the Federal Atomic Energy Agency), the TVEL Fuel Company’s enterprises has established reporting systems where reports are submitted to the Federal Information System for Nuclear Material Control and Accounting as well as to relevant international authorities.
The Fuel Company is enhancing measuring equipment. It is implementing computer-aided systems for control and accounting of nuclear material transfers. Nuclear material storage facilities are continuously upgraded.  Printable version
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Glossary
BWR reactor– boiling water reactor using water as a coolant.
NPP – Nuclear Power Plant, an electricity generating plant with one or more power units (reactors), turboalternators and other equipment.
SNF – spent nuclear fuel, irradiated nuclear fuel. After unloading from a reactor it is temporary stored in a pool at the NPP site, and then sent either for reprocessing or for disposal.
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