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.

Manufacturing of the assemblies will be carried out in cooperation with the Zheleznogorsk Mining and Chemical Combine, where the production of uranium-plutonium fuel pellets had already begun.