Basic Characteristics

The core activity of TVEL FC is development, production and sale of nuclear fuel for power and test reactors in Russia and abroad, as well as of associated nuclear and non-nuclear products in strict compliance with safety requirements: nuclear, radiation, industrial, fire, environmental, labor protection, physical protection of nuclear facilities and readiness for emergency response.

TVEL FC takes central place in the structure of the ROSATOM State Corporation in terms of the front end nuclear fuel cycle.

The Fuel Company is the sole supplier of nuclear fuel to Russian nuclear power plants. TVEL FC supplies nuclear fuel to 76 power reactors in 15 countries all over the world, research reactors in 9 countries worldwide and caters to transportation plants of the Russian Nuclear Powered Fleet. One out of every six power reactors in the world runs on fuel manufactured by TVEL FC * Chapter “Development strategy and external environment” Section “Place of TVEL FC in the World Market of FE NFC”. .

TVEL JSC is the Operations Management Center of the Fuel Company.

The Fuel Company has enterprises all over the Russian Federation.

As far as specifics of social environment are concerned, three enterprises of TVEL JSC are located within Closed Administrative Territorial Units (Seversk, Novouralsk and Zelenogorsk) and one is located within a company town (Glazov) where they happen to be backbone enterprises and major taxpayers * More details about TVEL FC activity within the special regions of presence see Chapter “Outcomes” Section “Development of the Regions of Presence” . .

In addition to core business that involves production of nuclear fuel, TVEL FC supplies to the Russian and international market a wide range of non-nuclear products: zirconium, lithium, calcium, magnets, thin-walled pipes, polishing powders, pinch rolls, zeolite catalysts, superconductor materials, etc.

TVEL FC has proprietary research and development design divisions that contribute to successful operation of hydrometallurgical, metalworking, machine-building and rolling facilities.

The Fuel Company comprises of four complexes that correspond to type-specific production of the FE NFC.

Separation-Sublimation Complex comprises of a group of integrated plants engaged in enrichment and conversion of uranium

• Joint Stock Company Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex (JSC AECC), Angarsk, Irkutsk Region. www.aecc.ru
• Joint Stock Company Production Association Electrochemical Plant (JSC PA ECP), Closed Administrative Territorial Unit Zelenogorsk (Krasnoyarsk territory). www.ecp.ru
• Joint Stock Company Siberian Group Of Chemical Enterprises (JSC SGChE), Seversk, Tomsk Region. www.atomsib.ru
• Joint Stock Company Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant (JSC UEIP), Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region. www.ueip.ru

Nuclear fuel fabrication complex comprises of industrial enterprises that manufacture nuclear fuel for various reactors

• Joint Stock Company Mashinostroitelny Zavod (MSZ JSC), Elektrostal, Moscow Region. www.elemash.ru
• Joint Stock Company Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (JSC NNCP), Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Region. www.nccp.ru
• Joint Stock company Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (JSC CMP), Glazov, Udmurt Republic. www.chmz.net
• Joint Stock Company Moscowpolymetalplant (JSC MZP), Moscow. www.mzp.ru

Gas centrifuge complex is a group of industrial companies producing gas centrifuges and accessories for enterprises of separation-sublimation complex.

• Kovrov Mechanical Plant Open Joint Stock Company (KMP OJSC), Kovrov, Vladimir Region. www.kvmz.ru
• Joint Stock Company Vladimir Production Association Tochmash, Vladimir, Vladimir Region. www.vpotochmash.ru
• Limited Liability Company Ural Gas Centrifuge Manufacturing Plant (UGCMP Ltd.), Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region

Research and engineering complex (Table 5)

• Joint Stock Company A.A. Bochvar High-Technology Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (JSC VNIINM), Moscow. www.bochvar.ru
  State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation JSC VNIINM is a leading organization of ROSATOM State Corporation on the issues related to materials and fuel cycle technologies, fissile and nuclear materials treatment technologies. Scientific and technological activities of the Institute are focused on the development of fundamental and applied research, increasing the share of the Russian nuclear energy industrial complex on the global market of nuclear materials and technologies, safe and efficient production of electricity and heat at NPP, and promotion of safe use of nuclear energy.
• NRDC LLC, EDB-Nizhny Novgorod, Centrotech-SPb, Uralpribor Ltd. represent the R&D organizations focusing primarily on gas centrifuges development and maintenance of the entire life cycle of the product.