TVEL

TVEL (Russian: ТВЭЛ, tr. tvel) is also a Russian abbreviation of the "heat-releasing element", fuel rod.
TVEL Fuel Company
Open joint stock company
Industry Nuclear industry
Founded 1996
Headquarters Moscow
Key people
 Sergei Sobyanin (Chairman of the Board), Anton Badenkov (Acting President)
Products Nuclear fuel
Revenue $2.77 billion[1] (2016)
$797 million[1] (2016)
$642 million[1] (2016)
Total assets $5.58 billion[1] (2016)
Total equity $4.37 billion[1] (2016)
Parent Atomenergoprom (Rosatom)
Website www.tvel.ru
TVEL Building in Moscow

The TVEL Fuel Company (TVEL) is a Russian nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Moscow. It works mainly in uranium mining and the production of nuclear fuel. TVEL belongs to the Atomenergoprom holding company (part of Rosatom).

TVEL supplies fuel to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, Finland, China and India. In the world, 73 power reactors (17% of the world market by number) and 30 research reactors are currently running with TVEL made fuel.

TVEL is developing the TVS-K fuel assembly for Western-designed reactors. As of 2017 TVS-K is in pilot usage, and TVEL hopes it will be ready for commercial supply in 2021.[2]

The chairman of the board of directors is Alexander Lokshin. The acting president is Yuri Olenin.

Subsidiaries

Nuclear fuel production[3]
Separation-sublimation assets[4]
Research institutes and design bureaus[5]
  • Central Design and Technology Institute
  • VNIINM
  • Novouralsk Scientific and Design Center
  • OKB-Nizhny Novgorod
  • Centrotech-SPb
  • Uralpribor

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.tvel.ru/wps/wcm/connect/tvel/tvelsite.eng/resources/1f50978041da7516b43fbfadfbaea43f/mfso2016angl.pdf.pdf.
  2. ↑ "A Russian export brand". Nuclear Engineering International. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Фабрикация ядерного топлива". Tvel.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Разделительно-сублиматный комплекс". Tvel.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Научно-конструкторский блок". Tvel.ru. Retrieved 4 August 2017.


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