Rosatom Presented Balanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle Solutions
On June 3, 2022, Rosatom hosted a webinar on balanced nuclear fuel cycle (NFC) organized by TENEX JSC and TVEL JSC with the support of Rusatom Service JSC. The event brought together representatives of the nuclear industry enterprises and partner universities of Rosatom State Corporation.
Balanced NFC is a new product line of Rosatom State Corporation, which offers integrated management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and its processing products. Its main objective is to fundamentally reduce the volume and activity of waste to be disposed of. Balanced NFC will improve safety of nuclear waste management and reduce environmental risks, provide a sustainable model of consumption and production, without creating nuclear legacy issues for future generations, and re-involve valuable raw materials in the production chain through nuclear materials recycling.
TENEX JSC and TVEL JSC are responsible for implementation of the product line. As a nuclear infrastructure development integrator, Rusatom Service JSC assists foreign partners in preparation for participation in the Balanced NFC (in the field of institutional, personnel and legal development).
During the event Mikhail Baryshnikov, Director of Innovations and Technologies Department at TENEX, and Alexander Pavlyuk, Director of TVEL JSC New Nuclear Products Department, presented the Balanced NFC development strategy. The speakers highlighted that an integrated product implies individual approach to each customer and that it can be supplied as a batch or as components. "Balanced NFC" takes into account all demands of the customer while maintaining the main quality – efficient fuel supply with a radical reduction of waste.
Yevgeny Zhurbenko, Senior Project Manager of Innovations and Technologies Department at TENEX, spoke about nuclear infrastructure peculiarities for a balanced NFC.
During the discussion Yulia Chernyakhovskaya, Deputy Director General for Nuclear Infrastructure of Rusatom Service JSC, noted that today's priority is to determine the infrastructure requirements for implementing the Balanced NFC in partner countries of Rosatom State Corporation and to create a roadmap for nuclear infrastructure development.
Rosatom is willing to provide foreign customers with the entire range of solutions needed to close the NFC. These solutions are based on advanced technologies, including fast-neutron reactors, fractionation and transmutation of radioactive elements, production of uranium-plutonium fuel. This makes it one of the best available technologies that can be recommended to all partners of Rosatom, both newcomers to the nuclear power industry and NPP operators with long-term experience.
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TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom (the Fuel Division of Rosatom) includes enterprises for the manufacture of nuclear fuel, conversion and enrichment of uranium, production of gas centrifuges, as well as research and design organizations. Being the only supplier of nuclear fuel for Russian nuclear power plants, TVEL provides fuel to a total of 75 power reactors in 15 countries, research reactors in nine countries of the world, as well as transport reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world is powered by TVEL fuel.
Rosatom's Fuel Division is the world's largest producer of enriched uranium, as well as the leader of the global market for stable isotopes. The Fuel Division is actively developing new businesses in the field of chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products, as well as decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Rosatom's industry integrators for additive technologies and power storage systems have been created in TVEL Fuel Company circuit. http://www.tvel.ru
TENEX JSC is one of the world's leading suppliers of nuclear fuel cycle products. For almost 60 years, TENEX has been successfully representing the Russian atomic industry in the global market.
Areas of TENEX JSC activities include supply of uranium products, a full range of logistics services (providing supply of NFC products), as well as goods and services in the field of SNF and RW management. In particular, the company organizes processing of foreign SNF in the Russian Federation and actively develops engineering services adapting solutions for SNF and RW management to the requirements of a particular customer. Throughout history, customers from 19 countries of the world have used Russian suppliers’ goods and services related to SNF management.
