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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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| JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod |
(JSC MSZ) Moscow Region, Electrostal
JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod (machine engineering works) is one of the oldest multi-functional enterprises of nuclear industry in Russia. It manufactures a wide spectrum of nuclear machine engineering products to meet the demands of nuclear power complex in Russia and abroad.
JSC Mashinostroitelny Zavod produces fuel assemblies for reactor cores of Russian and foreign NPPs using fresh and regenerated uranium for fuel fabrication. The enterprise fabricates research reactor fuel, fuel assembly sets for the Russian nuclear-propelled ice-breakers.
The enterprise implements full cycle of nuclear fuel production starting from conversion of uranium hexafluoride into uranium dioxide powder up to the assembling of fuel bundles. This cycle embraces fabrication of all the components and special packages to ensure safe transportation of radioactive products in accordance with the international safety and environmental standards.
In addition to main production, the enterprise produces metal calcium, ferrite-barium and ferrite-strontium magnets, tubular thermal and electric heaters for aqueous, air and oil medium, stainless steel thin-walled tubes. More information here
Contact information:
Address: 12 Karl Marx st., Electrostal city,
Moscow region 144001
Phone: (495) 702-99-01, 702-99-70
Fax: (495) 702-92-21
E-mail: zymsz@elemash.ru
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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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