Uranium & Fuel

Russia / Tvel Launches New Equipment For Production Of ‘Remix’ Fuel For VVER-1000 Reactors

By Kamen Kraev
8 June 2021

Tvel Launches New Equipment For Production Of ‘Remix’ Fuel For VVER-1000 Reactors
The new Remix fuel will combine reprocessed uranium and plutonium, and newly enriched uranium in addition. Image courtesy Tvel.
Russian state-owned nuclear fuel company Tvel has started operating new equipment at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk, central Russia, for the production of pilot fuel assemblies with uranium-plutonium Remix fuel for VVER-1000 reactor designs, a statement said.

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