Annual Report 2018
New Businesses and Products
TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom
Annual Report 2018
2018 Milestones
JANUARY

BULGARIA:

The contract documents for nuclear fuel supply to Kozloduy NPP in 2018-2020 enter into force

FINLAND:

Contracting with Fortum Power and Heat Oy for development of a new modification of nuclear fuel with increased uranium capacity for VVER- 440 in Loviisa NPP

FEBRUARY

RUSSIA:

Rusatom Additive Technologies (RusAT LLC), the nuclear industry integrator company for additive manufacturing business, starts operations as a subsidiary of TVEL JSC

APRIL

RUSSIA:

Implementation of the quality management system NQA-1 in TVEL JSC and in a number of enterprises of the Fuel Company

JUNE

UZBEKISTAN:

Supply of nuclear fuel to the recommissioned research reactor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan

JULY

RUSSIA:

TVEL Fuel Company starts business accelerator for start-ups and new ideas development

AUGUST

CZECH REPUBLIC:

The fourth generation TVSA-Т.mod.2 fuel with enhanced reliability and uranium capacity is loaded into VVER- 1000 reactor of the power unit No. 2 at Temelin NPP in the Czech Republic

RUSSIA:

Chepetsky Mechanical Plant starts production of the new product – hafnium oxide

SEPTEMBER

RUSSIA:

The first batch of TVS-2M fuel with the second generation anti-debris filter ADF-2 (protects fuel from damage and depressurization) is first time loaded into VVER-1000 reactor at power unit No. 1 of Rostov NPP

RUSSIA:

Loading of nuclear fuel into the reactor installations of the world’s first floating NPP Academic Lomonosov

OCTOBER

SWITZERLAND:

TVEL JSC and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) sign an agreement to conduct R&D for superconducting materials as part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project. In October, Chepetsky Mechanical Plant proceeded to pilot production of superconducting strands for FCC

NOVEMBER

RUSSIA:

Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant produces and successfully passes quality check for the initial nuclear fuel loading of power unit No.1 of Belarus NPP

DECEMBER

RUSSIA:

Kovrov Mechanical Plant completes the investment project “New Facility for Gas Centrifuges Production”

RUSSIA:

TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom starts production of new generation gas centrifuges stable isotopes separation

RUSSIA:

Start of industrial production of mixed uranium-and-plutonium MOX-fuel for BN-800 fast neutron reactor

RUSSIA:

First experimental fuel assemblies of Russian accident-tolerant fuel are manufactured for the further testing at MIR research reactor

INDIA:

Signing the contract for fuel pellets supply to Tarapur NPP in India

CHINA:

Signing of contract for nuclear fuel supply to CFR-600 fast neutron reactor in China