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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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The Fuel Company aims its property management at improving the asset structure both of JSC TVEL and its affiliated companies.
The Fuel Company’s property includes the stock of affiliated companies, basic production and related assets and, inter alia, separate process cycle facilities for nuclear fuel fabrication, mining facilities; property owned and used by the affiliated companies as well as land.
A unified database of basic assets of JSC TVEL’s affiliated companies was compiled to monitor, analyze and control basic assets flow.
The total area of land constituting the affiliated companies’ sites is about 13,500 hectares (the total area of land housing the industry unrelated real estate amounted to more than 5,000 hectares).
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Questions & Answers
Nuclear fuel means fuel assemblies (FAs). FA is a complex construction, the main element of which being a bundle of fuel rods made from stainless steel or zirconium. A bundle of fuel rods is filled with uranium dioxide pellets, enriched to 5 % U235. Rods, sealed tightly and loaded with fuel pellets, are called "fuel rods". In order to reduce the gaps between fuel rods and to acquire the necessary structural rigidity, fuel assembly has a number of structural elements: tailpiece, cap and a set of spacing grids. In some cases, they are equipped with a shroud tube. Depending on the reactor types FAs have different number of rods.
Nuclear fuel is delivered by air, sea, railway and motor special transport. Previously, it is placed in high-strength metallic containers, specially certified for transportation of nuclear materials. A special route and transportation schedule are worked out; an additional control of safe transportation on the way is provided. Fuel transportation has never experienced a single accident resulted in enhancement of radiation background.
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