Annual Report 2018
New Businesses and Products
TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom
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Annual Report 2018
РУС
About Company
Today TVEL Fuel Company* provides nuclear fuel to 76 energy reactors in Russia and 14 countries of Europe and Asia, these installations annually produce more than 400 billion kWh of electricity
* Collective name for TVEL JSC and its subsidiary companies.

TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom (hereinafter referred to as TVEL Fuel Company, TVEL FC, the Company) is one of the major players on the global market of front end nuclear fuel cycle and the only nuclear fuel supplier to Russian NPPs.

Consolidating the assets of the Fuel Division of Rosatom State Corporation, the Company includes the enterprises specialized in fabrication of nuclear fuel, uranium conversion and enrichment, production of gas centrifuges, as well as research, design and development organizations.

Based on the expertize accumulated for the years of nuclear production development, the Company preserves the regularity of pace in development of non-nuclear businesses. TVEL Fuel Company supplies to Russian and foreign markets a wide range of non-nuclear products and services in such areas as chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage, mechanical engineering and additive technologies.

All stages of activity comply with the strict requirements regarding nuclear and radiation, industrial, fire, environmental safety, as well as labor safety, physical protection of nuclear facilities and nuclear materials, emergency preparedness

An optimal organizational format to develop non-nuclear businesses for the Company is the creation of industry specific integrators.

The enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company are located in 10 regions of the Russian Federation, which renders effective cooperation with partners in a wide range of issues and areas.

Specific nature of the social environment where TVEL Fuel Company operates is the presence of industrial enterprises within the closed administrative territorial units (CATU): Seversk, Novouralsk, Zelenogorsk, and within the mono-town Glazov. These enterprises are town-forming organizations and major taxpayers.

One out of every6power reactors in the world operates on the fuel manufactured by the Company
Scheme 1
Competitive advantages of TVEL Fuel Company

Cost optimization and production compaction

  • increase of price competitiveness by optimizing costs
  • production concentration - optimization of duplicate functions
  • divesting non-core assets
  • development of new and low waste technologies
  • technological development

Package supplies

  • possibility of improving the characteristics of nuclear fuel (due to the fact that the Company’s framework concentrates all technological stages of nuclear fuel production)
  • increase of price competitiveness

Continuous improvement of consumer properties of nuclear fuel

  • provision of load following mode, possibility of increasing reactor capacity
  • extended fuel life and cycles
  • high nuclear fuel burn-up

Use of various types of raw materials

  • increase of commercial attractiveness of fuel
  • decrease of nuclear fuel share in power generation cost kWh

Reference fuel

  • proposal of reference solutions which have been tested and qualified in Russia
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Scheme 2
Position of TVEL Fuel Company in nuclear technological chain

THE ENTERPRISES OF TVEL FUEL COMPANY ARE LOCATED IN
10
REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
THE ENTERPRISES OF TVEL FUEL COMPANY ARE LOCATED IN
10
REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
  1. Moscow
    TVEL JSC, VNIINM JSC,
    MZP JSC, CPTI JSC
  2. Moscow region
    MSZ JSC (Elektrostal)
  1. Saint Petersburg
    Centrotech
    SPA LLC
  2. Vladimir region Tochmash
    VPA JSC (Vladimir),
    KMZ JSC (Kovrov)
  1. Udmurt Republic
    ChMP JSC
    (Glazov)
  2. Sverdlovsk region
    UEIP JSC,
    Centrotech SPA LLC
    (Novouralsk)
  1. Novosibirsk region
    NCCP JSC
    (Novosibirsk)
  2. Tomsk region
    SGChE JSC
    (Seversk)
  1. Krasnoyarsk territory
    PA ECP JSC
    (Zelenogorsk)
  2. Irkutsk region
    AECC JSC
    (Angarsk)