In 2016, more than 250 specialists from more than 30 organisations attended a conference in Russia on new generation nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants (NPPs) – development, operating experience and future Directions. The conference, organised by fuel company Tvel – which is part of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom – was held at the AA Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials (VNIIMN), a leading Russian centre for nuclear fuel research. It covered current developments recommended for a series of R&D directions for the development of new nuclear fuel. “Today we are working in several key areas in the development and improvement of fuel for NPPs,” Pyotr Lavrenyuk, Tvel’s senior vice-president for scientific and technical activities, technology and quality control told the delegates. “First of all, Tvel continues to improve VVER reactors, and improve the quality of zirconium materials. Next year we will focus on developing fast reactor fuel. Rosatom has set an ambitious goal for us to significantly increase the operating time and the percentage of fuel burnout.”
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