Uranium & Fuel

India / Russia Completes Final Shipment Of Uranium Fuel Pellets For BWRs

By David Dalton
3 December 2019

Russia Completes Final Shipment Of Uranium Fuel Pellets For BWRs
Russia’s state nuclear fuel company Tvel has shipped to India the final consignment of uranium fuel pellets for the country’s boiling water reactors. The total volume of pellets exceeded 50 tonnes and all shipments were carried out in 2019.

The pellets were produced at Elemash, a Tvel fabrication facility in Elektrostal, near Moscow. In India, the pellets will be used at the National Fuel Complex in Hyderabad to fabricate nuclear fuel assemblies for the Tarapur nuclear station.

Tvel has a history of providing fuel pellets to India for reactors of non-Russian design, such as BWRs and Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors.

Tvel also provides complete fuel assemblies for the two Russian-made VVER reactors at the Kudankulam nuclear power station.

Tarapur, in Maharashtra state, western India, has two 150-MW BWRs that began commercial operation in 1969 and are the oldest civil reactors in the country. It also has two 490-MW PHWRs.

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