Annual Report 2017
Efficiency improvement
and sustainable development
Annual Report 2017
Milestones 2017
01
January

Kovrov Mechanical Plant (KMZ PJSC) started batch production of the new generation gas centrifuges GC-9+.

02
February

A.A. Bochvar High-Technology Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (Bochvar Institute) completed the works in the framework of three governmental contracts under the project Proryv (Breakthrough) on processing technology for irradiated mixed uranium-plutonium nitride fuel, treatment of radioactive wastes generated after reprocessing of irradiated fuel, and mathematical process simulation of nuclear fuel fabrication, its processing and treatment of radioactive waste for new generation fast neutron reactors.

03
March

The supply contract was ratified with the European distributor HermitH GmbH (Germany) for more than 1 thousand tons of various titanium production by Chepetski Mechanical Plant (CHMP JSC) with total value of RUB 2 billion.

04
April

Gas centrifuges unit was successfully transferred from the site of Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises (SGChE; Seversk, Tomsk region) to Electrochemical Plant (PA ECP JSC; Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk territory). The previously shut down equipment was put into operation on the new production site and it now is effectively operated within the framework of design characteristics.

TVEL Fuel Company, China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation and Jiangsu Nuclear Power Corporation signed the package of supply contracts for Russian nuclear fuel, zirconium components for fuel assemblies and provision of engineering services for Tianwan NPP power units for the amount of about USD 1 billion.

05
May

Start of the Lean Polyclinics project in Novouralsk aimed at improving the medical services quality in the cities of TVEL Fuel Company operations.

07
July

The Company signed a contract for additional supply of TVS-K for pilot operation at power unit No.4 NPP Ringhals (Sweden) starting from 2019.

08
August

PA ECP JSC shipped a large batch of germanium-76 isotope for the international scientific collaboration GERDA, which conducts a research in the field of neutrinoless double beta decay of an atomic nucleus.

09
September

Natalya Nikipelova was appointed as President of TVEL JSC (previously she had been holding the position of Senior Vice-President for Finance, Economy and Corporate Governance since 2013,).

10
October

TVEL JSC launched the management processes restructuring project within the framework of the concept of "business and service functions interaction".

11
November

TVEL JSC and Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan concluded the nuclear fuel supply contract regarding VVR-SM research reactor operated by specialists of Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Representatives of TVEL Fuel Company obtained three gold awards in IV National Championship of High-Tech Industries WorldSkills Hi-Tech-2017 (Ekaterinburg).

TVEL JSC and MVM Paks NPP Ltd. (Paks NPP, Hungary) signed the contract for engineering services related to introduction of the new generation fuel assemblies for VVER-440 reactors on the operating Paks NPP power units.

12
December

TVEL JSC won the Grand Prix in the All-Russian Contest of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs "Russian Business Leaders: Dynamics and Responsibility - 2017", the nomination "For achievements in the field of occupational safety and health of workers".

The Company signed a fuel supply contract for Akkuyu NPP (Turkey).

The Company signed a fuel supply contract for Ostrovets NPP (Belarus).

The Company signed a nuclear fuel supply contract for El Dabaa NPP (Egypt).