This section of the database describes organizations
and facilities involved in refining and converting uranium and fabricating
nuclear fuel.
The two principal uranium fuel fabrication facilities
in Russia are the Machine Building Plant in Elektrostal,
Moscow Oblast, and the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate
Plant. (The largest fuel fabrication facility in the former Soviet
complex is the Ulba
Metallurgy Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.)
Two important uranium fuel research and
production facilities are the All-Russian Scientific
Research Institute of Chemical Technology and the Luch
Scientific Production Facility.
The Chepetsk Mechanical Plant
produces uranium metal and depleted uranium products and the Konstantinov
Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Combine processes depleted uranium.
The TVEL joint stock company was created by
government decree in June 1996 to aid vertical integration of nuclear fuel
production.
Page last updated 12 March 2002
For major recent developments, see the
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.
For archived developments, see the developments sections under the individual
facility files.
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This material is produced independently for NTI
by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the
Monterey Institute of International Studies and
does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has
not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers,
employees, agents. Copyright © 2002 by MIIS.
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