Russia’s TVEL ‘Ready’ To Supply Fresh Nuclear Fuel To Iran’s Bushehr

20 Aug (NucNet): Russia’s nuclear fuel company TVEL, a subsidiary of state nuclear corporation Rosatom, is “ready to deliver” fresh nuclear fuel for Iran’s Bushehr-1 nuclear power station, Rosatom said. Delivery of the fuel is in accordance with an existing contract between the two sides and will be made before the end of August 2015 to enable loading fresh fuel into the reactor when the unit enters into a planned maintenance and refuelling outage on 1 September. Rosatom said that after the July 2015 agreement between the so-called P5+1 (the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, along with the European Union) and Iran, TVEL established an account in an Iranian bank to allow timely payments for fuel deliveries. Bushehr-1, a 915-megawatt pressurised water reactor unit, was supplied by Russia and began commercial operation in September 2013.