TVEL signs fuel pellet supply contract for Tarapur reactor

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

TVEL, Russia's nuclear fuel manufacturer, has signed another contract with the Indian Department of Atomic Energy for the supply of enriched uranium fuel pellets produced by TVEL subsidiary Elemash.

The size and value of the order were not disclosed.

A series of shipments is planned for this year to the Nuclear Fuel Centre in Hyderabad, a fuel assembly production site for the Tarapur nuclear power plant, which is operated according to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, TVEL said today.

Russia has been supplying nuclear fuel components for the Indian boiling water reactor since 2000.

The 150 MWe Tarapur reactor was made by General Electric and is owned by Nuclear Power Corporation of India. It started commercial operations in October 1969.

As part of cooperation with the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, TVEL also supplies nuclear fuel for the first and second power units of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant under a life-cycle contract, TVEL said. In addition, the Russian-Indian cooperation extends to shipments of nuclear fuel components with TVEL supplying natural enriched uranium dioxide pellets for the Rajasthan pressurized heavy-water reactor.

Last year, new contracts between TVEL and its foreign partners exceeded $3 billion, with a ten-year order portfolio maintained at more than $10 billion, the company said.

It signed fuel supply contracts with nuclear power stations in Hungary, Finland and Slovakia, and research reactors in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Uzbekistan.

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