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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 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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Zirconium is fabricated at Chepetsky Mechanical Plant which is the only in Russia and one of the three largest plants in the world specializing in such production.
Chepetsky Mechanical Plant produces a broad range of zirconium and its alloy items, which are used in nuclear power; diode and aerospace machinery; car, gas and oil refining industry; and shipbuilding.
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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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