Annual Report 2017
Efficiency improvement
and sustainable development
Annual Report 2017
Intellectual Capital
The main objective of scientific and technical activities of TVEL Fuel Company is to ensure competitiveness of the products and safety of production and operation

The main areas of scientific and technical activities of TVEL Fuel Company are as follows:

  • improvement of existing structures, creation of new types and technologies of nuclear fuel production;
  • design and technological development of the separation-sublimation complex;
  • innovative activities in the non-nuclear industry.

The scope of research and development (R&D) is defined by the decisions of the management of ROSATOM State Corporation, contractual obligations, and is subject to revision on an annual basis at the meetings of the Scientific and Technical Council No. 2 of ROSATOM - "Nuclear Materials and Technologies of Nuclear Fuel", the STC of TVEL JSC and its sections.

The main regulating documents of R&D activity of TVEL JSC with regard to nuclear fuel for NPP are the following:

  • Federal Target Program "New Age Nuclear Energy Technologies 2010-2015 and up to 2020";
  • ROSATOM Program for Innovative Development and Technological Modernization for the Period up to 2030 (public part);
  • Long-Term Program "Nuclear Fuel and Efficient Fuel Cycles at Russian NPPs for 2012-2016 and up to 2020";
  • Work program for implementation of new types of fuel and fuel cycles at NPP with VVER reactors for 2016-2020 and up to 2025 (Rosenergoatom Concern JSC - TVEL JSC);
  • R&D program of ROSATOM for increase of fuel life of FN reactors;
  • R&D program of ROSATOM for formation of FN-800 core with full loading with MOX-fuel;
  • Annual plan of TVEL JSC for R&D and engineering services within the frameworks of operating activities and investment projects (is elaborated on the grounds of STC recommendations No.2 of ROSATOM "Nuclear Materials and Nuclear Fuel Technologies");
  • General provisions on arrangement of development, introduction and application of the improved fuel at Russian NPPs.