TVEL

TVEL (Russian: ТВЭЛ, tr. tvel) is also a Russian abbreviation of the "heat-releasing element", fuel rod.

TVEL

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Type	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	58 billion rubles. (2009)
Website	www.tvel.ru

TVEL Building in Moscow

TVEL is a Russian nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Moscow. It belongs to the Atomenergoprom holding company. The chairman of the board of directors is Alexander Lokshin. The acting president is Yuri Olenin.

Activities

TVEL works mainly in uranium mining and the production of nuclear fuel.

Operations include:

• A machinery plant in MAS in the city of Elektrostal
• The Chepetsky mechanical plant (in the town of Glazov, Udmurtia)
• Novosibirsk chemical concentrate plant

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.

See also

• Energy policy of Russia
• Nuclear power in Russia
• Rosatom

External links

• (English)Official website