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  • 2018-05-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Natalia Nikipelova told RIA Novosti that there was no reason to believe the U.S. – TVS-Kvadrat project would end. On May 15 (en)
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  • A Russian company, TVEL, produces fuel for nuclear reactors and is owned by the Russian state corporation Rosatom. It also supplies nuclear fuel for 78 reactors at nuclear power plants in 15 countries (mainly in Europe and Asia) as well as teaching reactors in several countries and reactors for the Russian navy. TVEL’s plans to supply fuel to the U.S. were first reported two years ago.View of uranium mines, Chaunsky district, Chukotka, RussiaIn May 2016, the U.S.-based multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) announced that Global Nuclear Fuel, a joint venture between GE and the Japanese companies, Toshiba and Hitachi, had signed an agreement with TVEL to buy nuclear fuel from a company named TVS-Kvadrat to go to the American market. The fuel was meant to be used in reactors like the pressurized water reactors (PWRs) that are made by the American company Westinghouse, which is owned by Toshiba. GE said at the time that 35 reactors of that type were operating in the United States and that delivery was supposed to start in 2019.TVS-Kvadrat produces fuel for Western-design nuclear reactors. Commenting on the company’s business plans, the Russian newspaper Kommersant noted in the summer of 2016 that TVS-Kvadrat’s push was in response to Westinghouse’s own move into the international nuclear fuel market, Kommersant reporting, ...the (American’s) greatest progress was made in Ukraine (en)
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