TVEL agrees to supply more TVS-Kvadrat fuel to Swedish nuclear plant
MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Russian nuclear fuel company TVEL has reached an agreement on an additional shipment of TVS-Kvadrat (FA-Square) fuel for pilot operation at Sweden's Ringhals Nuclear Power Plant.
"In June 2017 TVEL and Vattenfall agreed upon additional supply of 4 or 8 TVS-K Lead Fuel Assemblies (LFA) to be inserted starting in 2019 in Ringhals NPP Unit 4. As a result the Swedish operator will get more data of Russian fuel irradiation and consequently will be able to increase its reference basis," TVEL said in a press release.
TVEL also said that the second year of TVS-K operation in the reactor core of Ringhals NPP Unit 3 successfully finished in June 2017.
During the annual outage the plant operator performed thorough inspections of fuel that is currently in operation, including TVS-K. The inspections revealed that all the parameters for Russian fuel are within the design limits. The fuel assemblies have been loaded back into the reactor core for continued irradiation, TVEL said.