Annual Report 2017
Efficiency improvement
and sustainable development
Annual Report 2017
Abbreviations
ACS DEP

Automated Control System for Design Engineering Pre-production

AFCF

Adjusted free cash flow

AFST

Automated gas filling station

AMSIEM

Automated measuring system of industrial and ecological monitoring

ARMS

Automated radiation monitoring system

BN

Fast neutron reactor where the heat carrier within the first and second loop consists of sodium, while the third loop carries water and steam. In Russia is applied at Beloyarsk NPP

BWR

Boiling water reactor – a reactor that uses boiling water as heat carrier

CATU

Closed administrative and territorial unit

CD and ES

Civil defence and emergency situations

CEFA

Combined experimental fuel assembly

CERI

Complex Engineering and Radiation Inspection

CFHC

Chlorofluorohydrocarbons

CFR

Center of Functional Responsibility

CRMS

Corporate risk management system

CU

Conversion unit

DB

Database

DIC&A

Director for Internal Control and Audit

EBITDA

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization - an analytical indicator, used to define a company's profit, before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation and amortization are subtracted

ECM

Electronic Computing Machines

EChG-AFC

Electrochemical generators on alkaline fuel cells

EChG-SOFC

Electrochemical generators on solid oxide fuel cells

EDEC

Experimental demonstration energy complex

EGP

Energy channel-type graphite reactor with steam overheat, used on Bilibino NPP

EMERCOM

The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

EMS

Emergency Management System (Facility Level)

EUP

Enriched uranium product

Emergency Center SPb FSUE

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Emergency Centre of the Ministry of Nuclear Energy of Russia" (Saint Petersburg)

FA

Fuel Assembly

FE NFC

Front end of nuclear fuel cycle

FE, FEG

Fuel element

FMBA

Federal Medical and Biological Agency

FRM

Fabrication / refabrication module

FSUE

Federal State Unitary Enterprise

FTP

Federal Target Program

GC

Gas Centrifuge

GCC

Gas Centrifuge Complex

GOST

State Standard

HEU

Highly Enriched Uranium

HHCS

Hyper heat-conductive sections

HM

Heavy metals

HPP

Heat and power plant

IA

Investment Activities

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency - international regulatory body that monitors nuclear safety performance and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world

IC

Information Center

ICS

Internal Control System

IDP

Integrated Development Planning

IFI

Information favoured index

IFRS

International Financial Reporting Standards

IMS

Integrated Management System for Quality, Environment and Safety

IMSd

Integrated Management System for Design

INES

International Nuclear Event Scale

IT

Information Technologies

ITER

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor built on basis of tokamak by international group of scientists under the aegis of IAEA. It is supposed to be a pilot version of the world's first DEMO thermonuclear power plant

IUGR

Industrial uranium-graphite reactor

JCPOA

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

JSC

Joint Stock Company

KPI

Key performance indicators

LEU

Low-enriched uranium

LHM

High purity lithium-7 hydroxide monohydrate

LIC

Lithium-ion cells

LLC

Limited liability company

LRW

Liquid radioactive waste

LTIFR

Lost time injury frequency rate - number of lost time incidents divided by total hours worked for the reporting year and rated as 1 mln man hours.

LWS

Local warning systems

MM

Mass media

MNUP

Mixed nitride uranium-plutonium

MOX-fuel

Mixed Oxide Nuclear Fuel (generally on basis of uranium and plutonium)

MPS

Managerial personnel reserve

MSE

Managers, specialists, employees

MW

Megawatt - unit of power equal to 106 watts. MW(e) - electric power of a generator; MW(t) - thermal power of a reactor or heat source (e.g., full thermal power of the reactor itself is generally three times higher than the electric power)

NF

Nuclear fuel

NFC

Nuclear fuel cycle, set of arrangements aimed at operation of nuclear power industry, including production and processing of uranium ore, fuel production, its transportation to NPP, storage and treatment of SNF. In case of SNF burial NFC is called opened, and if fuel reprocessing and repeated use are provided - it is called closed.

NPF

Non-state pension fund

NPP

Nuclear power plant, industrial facility for electric power production

NRHF

Nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities

NRS

Nuclear radiation safety

OR

Oil Refinery

PHWR

Pressurised heavy water reactor – foreign reactors with heavy water (D2O) as reactor coolant

PJSC

Public Joint Stock Company

PWR

Pressurized water reactor – type of foreign reactors with pressurized water, analogue of VVER reactor

R&D

Research and development

RBMK

High-power channel-type reactor - type of single-cycle energetic reactor with water as hear carrier, and graphite as decelerator.

RN

Radionuclide

RPS

ROSATOM Production System

RR

Research Reactor

RRM/RF

RRM (regenerated raw material) – uranium hexafluoride obtained from regenerated fuel of industrial reactors
RF – uranium hexafluoride obtained from irradiated fuel of NPP reactors

RU

Reactor unit

RUEI

Russian Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists

RUNPIW

Russian Union of Nuclear Power and Industry Workers

RW

Radioactive waste

Russian-Kazakhstan Project ERC

Russian-Kazakhstan Project "Uranium Enrichment Center"

SC

Subsidiary companies

SDIC

Special Department for Internal Control

SFI

Suggestions for improvement

SH

Stakeholders, parties concerned

SNF

Spent nuclear fuel

SPA

Scientific-production association

SRWS

Solid Radioactive Waste Storage

SSC

State Scientific Center

SSC

Separation and sublimation complex

STC

Scientific and Technical Council

SWU

Separative work unit

TASED

Territory of advancing social and economic development

TIPS

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

TVEL FC
TVEL Fuel Company

TVEL JSC and subsidiary companies included into the management system of the Company and consolidation framework used for the reporting

TVS-K

Name of fuel assembly for PWR reactors developed in Russia

TVSA (FAAD)

Fuel assembly of alternative design

UIPS

Uniform Industrial Procurement Standard of ROSATOM State Corporation

VAT

Value added tax

VHI

Voluntary health insurance

VVER

Water-to-water energetic reactor