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Joint ventures abroad
Foreign representative offices
JSC TVEL cooperates with a number of foreign manufacturers of nuclear fuel pursuing expansion of collaboration in the global nuclear industry. For instance, JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod – one of the largest enterprises of the TVEL Fuel Company – manufactures nuclear fuel for the West European nuclear power plants. In cooperation with AREVA NP the plant fabricates the fuel for PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) and BWR (Boiling Water Reactor).
The cooperation of JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod with AREVA NP company was commenced in 1994. No claims have been brought to the Russian enterprise by the customers in terms of fuel quality since then. Certification of the quality management system of JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod for compliance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9000 was one of the pre-conditions of nuclear fuel supplies to Western Europe.
In the framework of the Russian-Ukrainian cooperation JSC TVEL has established business relations with many Ukrainian enterprises, which are based on mutually beneficial grounds: nuclear fuel for the Ukranian NPPs is manufactured from Ukraine-origin uranium concentrate and zirconium tetrafluoride.
JSC TVEL continues coordination and management of the works under the excessive weapons-grade plutonium disposition program being implemented in the framework of the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and the United States (the 2000 Agreement). The program envisages to gradually eliminate 68 tons of this material.
JSC TVEL takes part in the international project to implement the intergovernmental agreement concerning the development of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Production line for ITER-related superconductors is under development at Chepetsk Mechanical Plant.
The Fuel Company’s activity is aimed at participation in international programs launched by the International Atomic Energy Agency (the IAEA) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). To achieve this, JSC TVEL is subject to certification audit, participates in the international shows in the field of nuclear power and industry.
The cooperation to qualify JSC TVEL as a supplier of a wide spectrum of zirconium products to the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan is carried out under the agreement signed by GNF and JSC TVEL.  Printable version
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