:''TVEL ( rus, ТВЭЛ, r=tvel) is also a Russian abbreviation of the "heat-releasing element",

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The TVEL Fuel Company (TVEL) is a Russian nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. It has operated since 1996.

History and operations

The company was founded by

Vitaliy Konovalov Vitaliy Konovalov (14 September 1932–9 May 2013) was a Soviet politician who served as the minister of atomic energy and industry. In 1998 he established a nuclear fuel cycle company, JSC TVEL. Early life and education Konovalov was born in ...

in 1996. He headed the company until 2000. It works mainly in

uranium enrichment Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation. Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238U ...

and the production of

nuclear fuel Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission. Most nuclear fuels contain heavy fissile actinide elements that are capable of undergoing ...

. TVEL belongs to the

Atomenergoprom Atomenergoprom (Atomic Energy Power Corporation, AEP, russian: AO Атомэнергопром) is a 100% state-owned holding company that unifies the Russian civil nuclear industry. It is a part of the Rosatom State corporation. History Atomenerg ...

holding company (part of

Rosatom Rosatom, ( rus, Росатом, p=rɐsˈatəm}) also known as Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom or Rosatom State Corporation, is a Russian state corporation headquartered in Moscow that speciali ...

). TVEL supplies fuel to the

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, Slovakia,

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, Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania,

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and

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. 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. The chairman of the board of directors is Yuri Olenin. The president of TVEL is Natalia Nikipelova.

Subsidiaries

;Nuclear fuel production * Mashinostroitelny Zavod Elektrostal * Novosibirsk Plant of Chemical Concentrates * Chepetsky Mechanical Plant * Moscow Plant of Polymetals ;Separation-sublimation assets * Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine * Zelenogorsk Electrochemical Plant *

Siberian Chemical Combine The Siberian Chemical Combine (russian: Сибирский химический комбинат) was established in 1953 in Tomsk-7 now known as Seversk, in the Tomsk Region as a single complex of the nuclear technological cycle for the creation o ...

* Ural Electrochemical Plant ;Research institutes and design bureaus * Central Design and Technology Institute * VNIINM * Novouralsk Scientific and Design Center * OKB-Nizhny Novgorod * Centrotech-SPb * Uralpribor

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* Mining companies of Russia Nuclear fuel companies Uranium mining companies of Russia Rosatom Companies based in Moscow {{nuclear-energy-stub

History and operations

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