2017 was declared the Year of Ecology in Russia. The key thematic goal of the Year of Ecology is to draw attention to issues of concern in the environmental sphere and improve the country's ecological security.
In 2017, environmentally significant enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company implemented the Action Plan in the Year of Ecology, including organizational, R&D, educational and industrial-specific events aimed at improvement of environmental protection at TVEL JSC and environmentally significant organizations of TVEL Fuel Company.
During the Year of Ecology the enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company also focused on implementation of a large number of technological efforts to improve production, introduce innovative technologies for atmospheric and water discharge treatment, waste management.
The main environmental goal of TVEL Fuel Company is promotion of ecological, nuclear and radiation safety, implementation of the Company's strategic objective to provide social and ecological suitability.
TVEL Fuel Company maintains the Integrated Management System, where a Corporate Environmental Management System is a constituent.
System-based application of the guiding principles of Ecological Policy, the unified methodology of environmental aspect identification and environmental risks and opportunities evaluation allows to allocate funds to solve the most important problems, thus improving performance in the field of ecology. Priority goals and objectives aimed at reducing environmental risks are an integral part of the planning process; they are included in TVEL Fuel Company's Environmental Objective Achievement Program and Ecological Policy Implementation Plan.
TVEL Fuel Company activity aimed at reduction of adverse environmental impact of the enterprises is characterized by branch specificity and carried out in two directions:
- Removal of the environmental "heritage" of the first nuclear project, created as a result of execution of the military state programs on enterprises included into the management system of the Company, which implies execution of large scale works connected with decommissioning of the nuclear industry facilities and rehabilitation of the contaminated territories.
- Reduction of the impact by the enterprises on the environment connected with current production operations. Ecological management system in being developed in this direction with implementation of modern resource saving production technologies, routine environmental protection actions and continuous environmental quality monitoring.
In accordance with the above directions, enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company formulate annual plans of environment protection measures.
Funding of production and technological arrangements for environment protection is scheduled under TVEL Fuel Company´s Ecological Policy Implementation Plan, Environmental Objective Achievement Program and investment and project activities of TVEL Fuel Company and ROSATOM State Corporation. Each action, prior to its inclusion in investment projects, is assessed at the meeting of the Investment Committee of TVEL JSC in terms of feasibility and effectiveness of final result.
The enterprises of TVEL Fuel Company make regular efforts to improve the existing and introduce the advanced environmental technologies and technologies for monitoring adverse impact on the environment, staff and population of the regions of the enterprises' presence. Special attention is paid to environmental safety during improvement of the existing nuclear fuel production technologies.
Employees of TVEL JSC and its subsidiaries take an active part in the development of scientific and technical reference books on the best available technologies; these reference book are used at the enterprises included into the management system of TVEL Fuel Company.
Environmentally important subsidiaries of TVEL Fuel Company (AECC JSC, PA ECP JSC, SGChE JSC, NCCP PJSC, UEIP JSC, ChMP JSC, MSZ PJSC) issue and publish on websites the annual public reports on environmental safety to inform the stakeholders, partners, local government bodies, and the public.
- NCCP PJSC became the winner of All-Russian Contest "Russian Business Leaders: Dynamics and Responsibility - 2017" in nomination "For Ecological Responsibility".
- NCCP PJSC was acknowledged the winner of Novosibirsk EcoProm-2017 contest in nomination "Production Ecology".
- Following the results 2016 PA ECP JSC became the winner in special nomination "Environmentally Exemplary Enterprise of the Fuel Company" of ROSATOM's contest "Environmentally Exemplary Enterprise of the Nuclear Industry" (The results of the contest were announced in the late 2017).
- UEIP JSC won municipal ecological contest Green Owl-2017 in nomination "The Leader in Environmental Compliance in Novouralsk Municipal District".
- ChMZ JSC became the winner of the Ecological Responsibility-2017 contest in nomination "Sponsor and Charity Support", and won the prize of the Republican contest under the annual national campaign "Environmental Hazards Protection Days".
- The project "Ecological Safety in Handling Solid Radioactive Waste", presented by UEIP JSC, became the finalist of the National Crystal Compass Award in the nomination "Best Environmental Project of Industrial Enterprises and Business".
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Organizational arrangements | Results of the arrangements 2017 Plans 2018 |
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Work of section No. 3 of TVEL JSC STC |
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Ecological Audit |
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Improvement of regulatory and legal base in the field of environmental protection. |
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Control of availability and validity of ecological authorizations |
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Participation in meetings and conferences |
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- The project "Clean City – Safe World" is implemented to strengthen the image of TVEL Fuel Company of ROSATOM as a socially and environmentally responsible company. The project promotes environmental responsibility of personnel and is aimed at environmental education and development of social activity of the residents in the regions of presence of the Fuel Division of ROSATOM State Corporation, as far as environmental protection is concerned.
- Under the project, on the basis of School Technoparks the students of Physics and Mathematics Lyceums in the territories of presence of PA ECP JSC, SGChE JSC, UEIP JSC, ChMZ JSC and supervised by TVEL Fuel Company, designed the robots for environmental quality monitoring.
- In 2017, TVEL Fuel Company won V.I. Vernadsky National Environmental Award for the project "Clean City - Safe World".
- For the initiative and significant contribution to the environmental protection and participation in National Environmental Volunteer Clean-Up Day "Green Spring 2017" TVEL Fuel Company was awarded the diploma of V.I. Vernadsky Non-Governmental Environmental Fund.