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New types of fuel
TVEL Corporation intensively upgrades the existing and implements new types of fuel for nuclear power plants, research and propulsion reactors.
VVER reactors are studied to make increase uranium-consuming cores to implement more effective fuel cycles.
R&D activities are carried out for the third generation FA designed for VVER-440 to obtain better characteristics resulted from FA water-uranium ratio optimization.
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TVEL Corporation 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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TVEL pursues a responsible ecological policy. The Corporation’s key enterprises – MSZ, NCCP, and CMP – have been certified for compliance of their ecological management systems to the requirements of the ISO 14001 International Standard by TUV Cert independent audit company (Germany). Giving a credit to the Corporation’s contribution in the field of ecological management the Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Ecology V. Grachev awarded in 2005 JSC TVEL with the diploma Ecology Exemplary Company.
An advanced approach to the environment protection and occupational safety is the feature of all production enterprises of the Corporation. The main objective of the Corporation’s environmental policy is to minimize, to the extent possible, the negative impact to the environment. This is achieved through reduction of releases of pollutants to the atmosphere, reduction of process discharges and energy conservation.
 | The JSC TVEL environmental policy is based on principles of rational nature management, maintaining the natural environment at industrial sites, land reclamation, improvement of radiation monitoring systems and maintaining occupational safety of the personnel.
Presently, the system to monitor nuclear, radiation, environmental and general industrial safety is functioning at all the enterprises of JSC TVEL and covers existing and suspended production facilities. This system includes laboratories for nuclear and radiation safety, environmental protection as well as technical supervision services, occupational safety sections and emergency response teams. The laboratories are equipped with instrumentation, which ensures monitoring of releases to the environment and concentration of adverse substances in the production premises; control over compliance with standards set forth for radioactive materials, meeting the environmental guidelines in the controlled areas of the enterprises.  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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