Russian nuclear fuel cycle

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The Russian nuclear fuel cycle incorporates all of those element in the industry aimed at producing nuclear fuel. There are two types of fuel cycles used in the world today―open and closed. The open cycle, which, for instance, has been used in the United States since the administration of President Jimmy Carter in the mid-1970s. buries spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in special storage depots without trying to recycle it for usable fuel materials. This is considered safer from an environmental and non-proliferation stand-point. The closed fuel cycle, which Russian uses, recycles SNF for fuel usable material such as uranium and plutonium. It also yields other highly active liquid and solid by-products. Russia reprocesses fuel from VVER-440 type reactors and maritime reactors, but is incapable of dealing with fuel from its other reactor types. Fuel that can be recycled is reprocessed at the Mayak Chemical Combine in the southern Urals, widely considered the most radioactively contaminated spot in Russia.

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[ 02.05.2008 ]
Contractor slapped on wrist for bilking millions out of Ozersk with phony building permits

MOSCOW - The court of the closed nuclear city of Ozersk issued a guilty verdict against a contractor used phony building contracts to completed several projects for the city - and was sentenced to pay less than one percent of the amount he bilked out of the city’s coffers as punishment.

[ 28.02.2008 ]
Russian Presidential heir pays lip service to ‘solving’ environmental problems

Likely successor to Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev offered a nod in the direction of greater care for Russia’s environment, urging citizens to report ecological damage to prosecutors, Itar-Tass Russian state newswire reported.

[ 20.12.2007 ]
TVEL in deal with US’s General Electric and Europe on nuke fuel production deal

NEW YORK - Russian nuclear fuel monopoly TVEL plans to sign a deal with US company General Electric and an unspecified European firm at the start of 2008 to promote a new nuclear fuel assembly on non-Russia markets, TVEL said in a statement, Russian newswire RIA Novosti reported.

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