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BN reactor fuel
In the 1970’s JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod commenced serial production of BN-350 and BN-600 nuclear fuel. BN-600 fuel is characterized by increased enrichment by uranium-235 as compared with VVER. Due to liquid sodium coolant used in BN reactor corrosion resistance steel is used as a structural material for fuel rods and assemblies.
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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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| Code of Corporate Conduct |
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The JSC TVEL’s corporate management is guided by the recommendations of the Code of Corporate Conduct drafted by the Federal Commission on Equity Market. All affiliated companies of JSC TVEL have adopted “The Code of Corporate Ethics and Conduct”, which provisions regulate corporate relations and establish binding ethic norms.  Printable version
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Interesting facts about nuclear energy
Radioactive phenomenon was discovered by Antuan Becquerel in 1898. At first it was thought that the discovered radiation is emitted by an atom. But only later it became known that their source is a nucleus.
The first nuclear reactor was built in the USA in 1942 under the direction of Enrico Fermi. In the USSR the first reactor was commissioned 4 years later. The project was headed by Igor Kurchatov.
In 2000, nuclear power industry was the first to achieve the “pre-perestroika” level of production, as compared with other industries. Since 1998 Russia’s NPPs have provided annual growth of electricity generation in an average by 7 Bln kWh.
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