Novosibirsk, May 21 - Neftegaz.RU. Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP, an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) has successfully completed the final inspection of the initial loading fuel batch for Unit 2 at Belarus NPP, which is under construction in Ostrovets, Grodno region.
A batch of 152 fuel assemblies for VVER-1200 reactor was fabricated at NCCP under the contract between TVEL and ASE (manages the engineering division of ROSATOM), the general contractor for Belarus NPP construction.
The final inspection has been carried out by the representatives of ASE, VPO ZAES (an authorized company with a license for nuclear fuel acceptance), Belarus NPP Republican Unitary Enterprise, as well as Belarus Gosatomnadzor national nuclear regulator.
The inspectors could review all required documents, NCCP manufacturing process including numerous quality control stages, finished fuel assemblies, as well as the process of product placing in nuclear fuel casks for their further transportation.
“The fuel division of ROSATOM has met its obligations to fabricate fuel for both units of Belarus NPP strictly on schedule. In future, besides the NCCP site, we consider fabrication of fresh nuclear fuel for this power plant at Machine-building Plant in Elektrostal as well. Each fuel fabrication facility at TVEL has its own profile, meanwhile both of them have expertise of production of VVER-1200 fuel. This enables us to timely supply nuclear fuel to all NPPs with advanced and most efficient Gen 3+ power units, both operational and those under construction in Russia, Belarus, and other countries where ROSATOM is constructing NPPs of similar design,” Mikhail Zarubin, Senior Vice President for Production at TVEL, commented.
