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TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom has dispatched all shipments to China scheduled for 2022, in order to supply the first core loading of the CFR-600 fast-neutron reactor. In total, three batches of nuclear fuel, including all fuel assemblies for the first core loading as well as the bundles for the first refueling, have been sent by rail from the Elemash Machine-Building Plant in Elektrostal (an enterprise of Rosatom's TVEL Fuel Company).

During the International Forum Atomexpo-2022 in Sochi, Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP, an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) and the Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency (EAEA) signed the contractual documents for supplies of low-enriched fuel components to Egypt.

On November 19, 2022, TVEL’s Senior Vice-President for Research and Development Alexander Ugryumov has presented the new Russian technologies and solutions for nuclear fuel cycle at the conference Characterization and quality control of nuclear fuels in Hyderabad, India.

Elemash Machine-building Plant, a fuel fabrication enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company, has dispatched the first batch of nuclear fuel to China for the CFR-600 fast neutron reactor. Till the end of the year, two more fuel shipments are scheduled to follow, aimed for the initial load of the reactor core and the first refueling.

Power unit No. 4 of the Beloyarsk NPP with the BN-800 fast reactor has been connected to the grid and resumed operations upon completion of the scheduled maintenance. After the recent refueling, the BN-800 core, for the fist time in history, has been fully loaded with uranium-plutonium MOX fuel.

TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom has supplied the first batches of TVS-2M nuclear fuel to India for the two functioning units-1&2 of Kudankulam NPP, powered by VVER-1000 reactors. After refueling in July 2022, the Unit 1 will start its operation in 18-months fuel cycle from currently used UTVS fuel with 12 month operating cycles. With this TVEL will be fulfilling the agreement with Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) / Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) on implementation of TVS-2M nuclear fuel with 18 month operating cycles for KKNPP.

Rosatom engineers have completed new milestones in development of ATF fuel for light water reactors.

TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom has launched the new fabrication facility for manufacturing of TVS-K nuclear fuel for PWR reactors at the site of Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, one of the world’s major nuclear fuel enterprises.

Elemash Machine-building plant in Elektrostal, Mosow region (an enterprise of the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) manufactured 32 mock-ups of control and protection system assemblies for CFR-600, the first high-capacity fast reactor in China. The products were accepted by the customer and shipped to China for testing of the simulation reactor core: before the launch of a new power unit, dummies of fuel assemblies, as well as assemblies of the control and protection system get loaded into the reactor core and then unloaded, to test the key systems of the facility.

Six fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel rods have been loaded into the VVER-1000 core during the scheduled outage at unit 1 of the Balakovo NPP. Each REMIX fuel assembly of the standard TVS-2M model contains only fuel rods with a mixture of uranium and plutonium recovered from spent nuclear fuel (312 fuel rods in each bundle).