TVEL Fuel Company
TVEL Fuel Company is a RUS company active in the nuclear fuel chain as enricher, fabricator.
Rosatom's fuel division, operating all four Russian enrichment plants and the Elektrostal and Novosibirsk fabrication facilities. It supplies fuel for VVER reactors worldwide, and for much of the Soviet-designed fleet in Eastern Europe, several of which have only recently qualified Westinghouse fuel as an alternative.
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
|---|---|
| Founded | not recorded |
| Ownership | state |
| Parent | Rosatom |
| Roles in the chain | enricher, fabricator |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Enriched uranium from this company feeds fuel fabrication, and from there 419 operating reactors across these types. Heavy water reactors are absent because they run on natural uranium and skip enrichment entirely.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Pressurised heavy water reactor | 46 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elektrostal (Elemash) reprocessed uranium conversion | conversion | RUS | 700tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Novouralsk (Urals Electrochemical Combine) | enrichment | RUS | 13,300tSWU/yr | operating |
| Zelenogorsk (Electrochemical Plant) | enrichment | RUS | 7,900tSWU/yr | operating |
| Angarsk (Electrolysis Chemical Combine) | enrichment | RUS | 4,000tSWU/yr | operating |
| Seversk (Siberian Chemical Combine) | enrichment | RUS | 3,800tSWU/yr | operating |
| Elektrostal (MSZ) | fabrication | RUS | 1,560tHM/yr | operating |
| Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant | fabrication | RUS | 1,200tHM/yr | operating |
TVEL Fuel Company in context
In fabrication TVEL Fuel Company holds 2,760 of the 14,912 tHM/yr of world fabrication capacity in 2022 (19%), ranking 3rd of the 6 named operators in the source.
TVEL Fuel Company has 7 facilities on record in 1 country (Russia): 7 operating.
Share of each stage it works in
| Stage | Company | World total | Share | Rank | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrication | 2,760tHM/yr | 14,912(2022) | 19% | 3 of 6 | World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Fuel Fabrication |
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
What it supplies
| Product | For | Operating units of that kind |
|---|---|---|
| VVER fuel assemblies | vver | - |
| RBMK fuel assemblies | rbmk | - |
| Fast reactor fuel, including MOX | fbr | - |
Recorded as capability against a reactor type or model line rather than against named units, because utilities do not publish fuel contracts.
Sources
- TVEL Fuel Company, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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