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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 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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Nuclear power industry is one of the youngest and most dynamically developing branches of the world economy. Its development is encouraged by the growing demands of the mankind for fuel and energy in view of limited renewable resources.
It should be noted that spent or irradiated nuclear fuel after special reprocessing can be used again.
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Glossary
BWR reactor– boiling water reactor using water as a coolant.
NPP – Nuclear Power Plant, an electricity generating plant with one or more power units (reactors), turboalternators and other equipment.
SNF – spent nuclear fuel, irradiated nuclear fuel. After unloading from a reactor it is temporary stored in a pool at the NPP site, and then sent either for reprocessing or for disposal.
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