Ukraine publishes report on the volume of imports of nuclear fuel

A report was published in Ukraine reporting where nuclear fuel was purchased for its nuclear power plants. Recall that earlier in Kiev they announced the goal of phasing out purchases of nuclear fuel from Russia.

The report says that in the first 9 months of the year, the main purchases were nevertheless in Russia. Russian-made fuel assemblies were imported in the amount of almost 158,5 million dollars - 61,2%. If expressed in absolute terms, then this is about 174,5 tons of nuclear fuel.

The rest, allegedly, Ukraine purchased from Sweden. It is stated that Swedish products for nuclear power plants were purchased in the amount of approximately 100 million dollars. This is about 141 tons of nuclear fuel.

Speaking of “Swedish nuclear fuel”, Ukraine refers to fuel assemblies from Westinghouse. In the spring of 2014, Ukraine entered into an agreement with this company, on the basis of which it purchases nuclear fuel produced in Sweden. This despite the fact that at the moment Westinghouse is a company going through bankruptcy proceedings.

The Ukrainian Energoatom continues to use western fuel assemblies in Soviet-designed reactors. Apparently, nobody in the Ukrainian leadership is bothered by the fact that this one does not meet the safety standards for the power units of operating nuclear power plants.

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[Spartanez300]

They want a new Chernobyl to organize mediocrity.

[den3080]

Continue to saw the branch on which they sit.
There is a brilliant Armenian cartoon “Ax”.
Take a look. Well, purely Ukraine. Neither add nor decrease.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: den3080

Continue to saw the branch on which they sit.

Well, finally I realized why it’s forbidden to use saws in psychic hospitals.

[210ox]

What saws ?! Even forks .. Although, if in essence, Westinghouse violated the ownership right by copying the Soviet fuel assembly. And our manufacturing companies swallowed it for granted.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: 210ox

What saws ?!

How many? Well, with loves, manual, electric, well, in general, with which you can cut the branches on which you sit.

[210ox]

Actually, I said about the forks. Electric or gasoline has not yet been observed

[svd-xnumx]

TVEL is also not ashamed of assembling for "western" reactors, it is touching the situation when non-brothers buy fuel from the Swedes, and the Swedes from Russia. No matter how it turns out that Russian assemblies have migrated to Banderostan through Sweden (maybe even virtually).

In 2016, the Rosatom subdivision, TVEL Fuel Company, entered into the first contract for the commercial supply abroad of fuel assemblies TVS-Kvadrat, suitable foreign-design nuclear power plants (with light-water reactors of the PWR type). The first contract was concluded with Sweden for Ringhals NPP [26]. Unlike Russian fuel assemblies having a hexagonal section, TVS-Kvadrat have a square section.

In addition, in 2016, an agreement was signed with Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas (a subsidiary of GE-Hitachi) on cooperation in promoting TVS-Square on the American market. It is assumed that fuel loading at American nuclear power plants will occur in 2019. In April 2019, Rosatom confirmed that work with the United States on the supply of TVS-Square is on schedule [27].

In January 2019, Rosatom signed a contract for the production of fuel for fast neutron reactors with the Chinese CNLY, which is part of the national corporation CNNC (China National Nuclear Corporation) [28]. The fuel will be manufactured for the CFR-600 fast neutron reactor building unit - for the first load, and then reboot for seven years of operation of the reactor. For this project, TVEL will build a special production workshop at the MSZ (Elektrostal)

[hydrox]

[quote = svd-73] No matter how it turns out that Russian assemblies through Sweden (maybe even virtually) migrated to Banderostan. [quote]
You know, we would be more restrained in treating SUCH tricks of skakuas :: we do not care who they will buy fuel assemblies from and for what money, but the main thing should console us: the assemblies are made not by just anybody, but by the TVEL concern, which has proper experience Although the danger of burning through rods of square cross-section, planted in a 6-sided cell, still remains significantly increased, the thermal power of the reactor must be forcibly reduced, and the actions of the Skakuas, Americans and Brussels officials are equally criminal.
And why does the European Union remain SO QUIET - or did Trump pay them for silence (lambs) anyway? ..

[LifeIsGood]

And THIS is shown to children? .... Hmm .... And we are still wondering where "jihad and all that" comes from ...

[Zeev Zeev]

New Chernobyl in the South China Sea is likely to be

[Antares]

The usual diversification of supplies.
That is what was stated.
There were several suppliers. And not one monopolist.
And yes, TVEL is a little cheaper.
Plus the familiar scheme "Ukrainian uranium in exchange for fuel rods" .. makes the procedure cheaper.
The import region where Ukraine has always clearly paid with TVEL for rods.
And where TVEL has always emphasized that Ukraine is a reliable buyer (constant since the nth year_)
Obviously, in this "Russian-Ukrainian business of uranium, and fuel rods with other equipment" a lot of money was cut together. But their volume is very large.

[den3080]

Antares :)
stream of consciousness of an effective manager?
No one has yet canceled radiation materials science.
Western fuel elements cannot behave absolutely the same as Russian ones. a-priory.
and they are shoved into a Soviet / Russian reactor. It is just DANGEROUS.

but effective managers usually have a different education (lawyers, economists) to them that fuel, that dung - one fig fuel. Why not arrange diversification.

[rhino]

Western TVELs can work perfectly. Westinghouse already 15 years ago calculated and designed analogues of Russian ones. Or do you think that after Chernobyl we in Ukraine do not understand the dangers of nuclear power plants ???

[den3080]

Yes, the flag in your hands.
I already 3 times in 2 years explained in sufficient detail why it is DANGEROUS to push someone else's rods into someone else's reactor, even if they are the same shape as the Russian ones and even the composition is almost the same.
the whole point is “almost” because atomic energy developed in parallel ways, in the USA and the USSR. And everything was classified, PERFECT SECRET.
The result is one - electricity, and the materials from which the reactors and fuel elements and assemblies are made are slightly different in composition, therefore, in the conditions of hard radiation they behave differently.
Though you sit down counting, you will not count. Alien in a stranger.

the decision taken on the so-called diversification was political, not at all technical and not scientific. And under this decision of the Washington regional committee for 20 years they have been pushing the unreleased into Soviet reactors. Piss, but shove. And they report that everything is in a bundle.

In your 404 99% this is done unfortunately. fake heroes, fake story, coal from South Africa, gas like not from Russia and EVERYTHING is calculated West calculated and guaranteed, and only swear m ... rock interfere.
Cartoon "Ax" look at the beginning of the topic. This is about you. Back in 1994, a cartoon was made.

[asv363]

Quote: Nashorn

Westinghouse already 15 years ago calculated and designed analogues of Russian

No. Fuel assemblies from Vest have "hanging" fuel rods, i.e. not fixed at the bottom. Even in terms of parameters, the same kgf (coefficient of hydraulic resistance) is different for TVS-WR, and this is only one parameter where there is a difference.

[rhino]

And how does it work then ??? Or are they next to the reactor on the floor ???

[asv363]

In our TVSA, the number of fuel elements is 312. They are fixed in the lower shank and in the spacer grids. For Americans - only in distance grids. The rigidity of the structure is achieved due to 6 vertical angles in TVSA, in West - due to the so-called. the supporting frame when the spacer grids are welded to the central channel under the DPZ sensors and to six tubes under the absorbing rods of the CPS.

[Ramzaj99]

Quote: Nashorn

Western TVELs can work perfectly. Westinghouse already 15 years ago calculated and designed analogues of Russian ones. Or do you think that after Chernobyl we in Ukraine do not understand the dangers of nuclear power plants ???

There have been more emergency situations at Ukrainian NPPs over the past 3 years than in ALL other years of "independent" operation. 2 power units in general, after constant emergencies and emergency jamming, were taken out of operation, under the pretext of overhaul, but the repair has not begun. Another two, which are under construction and are 3 years ago in a state of 90-95% readiness, are currently dismantled as donors and frozen ... The European Atomic Safety Agency has predicted major accidents at Ukrainian nuclear power plants for the next 10 years with a forecast of 80% if no drastic changes occur.

[Ramzaj99]

The topic is part of the article.
"A new nuclear accident at one of the nuclear power plants in Ukraine with a probability of 80 percent may happen in the next five years.

This sensational and very disturbing information, shocking the European Union, was published by the Italian edition of Gli Occhi Della Guerra. The EU understands: in the event of such an emergency, an "atomic cloud" can actually "swim" to their countries. And thousands of “ecological” refugees from Ukraine will surely flood into the West.

Little of. In a study by the authoritative international organization Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS), which Gli Occhi Della Guerra refers to, the two most dangerous nuclear power plants in Ukraine are also named. These are the Rivne and South-Ukrainian stations (Nikolaev region). It is on them that one should fear in the coming years an accident like the one that broke out in 1979 at the American Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

In support of this forecast, an article by Gli Occhi Della Guerra provides data on four operating Ukrainian nuclear power plants built in the Soviet era, with 15 power units operating. The term of their operation according to the instructions should not exceed thirty years. But seven reactors are already much older and should have been decommissioned a long time ago.

Moreover, having abandoned Russian nuclear fuel at one time, local power engineers, despite warnings from Russian specialists about possible "incompatibility," transferred them to the fuel cells of the US-Japanese company Westinghouse. However, it quickly became clear that (as expected!) The fuel assemblies produced by the American company were unsuitable for operation at stations built in the USSR.

For some time, such fuel cells were banned in Ukraine. According to the Italian edition, "the loss of the state-owned Ukrainian company Energoatom, which is responsible for nuclear power plants, amounted to $ 175 million."

It would be okay only financial losses (they are actually much higher, given the losses from purchased and unused fuel assemblies-WR, as well as due to the forced downtime of two units of the South Ukrainian NPP). The problem is much more acute - the safety of these nuclear power plants. And that means - and the inhabitants of the country .................

[hydrox]

Criminally do not understand!
Therefore, for complete happiness, you do not have enough of the explosion of at least one other reactor to close ALL your nuclear energy to such a mother - you don’t even have dummies from an alternative, and you have already cut down the whole forest in the Carpathians!
But as in the dark, demographic indicators are improving, and HOW you, breeders, it is now becoming colonially necessary!

[rhino]

Where to us. You know better.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

Western TVELs can work perfectly. Westinghouse .... the question was organized, do you have a personal car? if so, what to call? if you answer, then I'm a little bit diligently spreading what is the difference in fuel .... or will you guess?

[rhino]

There is a car, of course. ZAZ Sens.
I am aware that nuclear fuel is as different as gasoline. For developers it will not be difficult to repeat the composition. Yes, this is not elementary, but Westinghouse is not a collective farm forge.

[hydrox]

Quote: Nashorn

but Westinghouse is not a collective farm forge.

Exactly, not a forge, but much worse: a forge has a master, there are tools, a front of work and an interest.
Your shameful Westinghouse has no owners, there is a bankruptcy proceeding, and the crisis manager does not give a damn about your nuclear power plants, and you too - they no longer bear responsibility for the activities of Westinghouse.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

For developers it will not be difficult to repeat the composition. ..... it may not be difficult to copy, only no one anywhere in the west can set up a separate line for cheap fuel, there will be no profit, then there will be guaranteed bankruptcy, such is the bourgeois western world, you won’t do anything, therefore will vaporize fuel assemblies with a high degree of purification and reactivity. I knowingly cited an example about a car, try pouring a cinder with an octane higher than a hundred into a VAZ-2106. 16-20 kilometers and you can safely drag the engine to the metal base, exactly like the AI-80 surrogate in your ZAZ qualification

[tihonmarine]

Quote: den3080

but effective managers usually have a different education (lawyers, economists) to them that fuel, that dung - one fig fuel.

Yes, it’s bad when economists rule space medicine, journalists in space, and managers in nuclear reactors. And how not to remember I.A. Krylov

The trouble is, since the cobbler will start the pies, And the boots will stitch the pastry, And things will not go in the way. Yes, and a hundredfold is noted, that whoever loves to take up someone else’s craft is always more obstinate and foolish than others: He’s better to ruin everything

[Brturin]

Quote: Antares

And yes, TVEL is a little cheaper.

And TVEL takes back what it has, "purchased for about $ 100 million. This is about 141 tons of nuclear fuel" and this will always remain here ...

[asv363]

Quote: Antares

Plus the familiar scheme "Ukrainian uranium in exchange for fuel rods" .. makes the procedure cheaper.

Uranium mined in Ukraine is enough for 30-40% of all fuel consumed at nuclear power plants.

Quote: Antares

Obviously, in this "Russian-Ukrainian business of uranium, and fuel rods with other equipment" a lot of money was cut together.

Do not make me laugh. At what stage is "sawing" possible: conversion, enrichment, deconversion, sintering of tablets, fabrication?

[Antares]

Quote: asv363

At what stage is "sawing" possible: conversion, enrichment, deconversion, sintering of tablets, fabrication?

yes on the same as the "business of presidents". It seems that well, what is easier - a pipe and meters .. where there is a "cut" ...
This is Ukraine and Russia - there’s 1000 and 1 way to cut money ...

Quote: asv363

Uranium mined in Ukraine is enough for 30-40% of all fuel consumed at nuclear power plants.

Well, that’s already good. Given that 1/3 can be sold and get discounted rods.

In January-June 2019, Ukraine acquired nuclear fuel for a total of $ 98,402 million, with almost half from the Russian Federation
"For the six months of this year, Russian-made fuel for $ 47 million 173,1 thousand was purchased for Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP), Swedish fuel for $ 51 million 228,9 thousand," the statement says.
Thus, the share of Ukraine's purchases of nuclear fuel in the reporting period from TVEL (RF) in monetary terms amounted to 47,9%, from Westinghouse (Sweden) - 52,1%.
At the end of 2018, Ukraine bought nuclear fuel for a total of $ 523,1 million for nuclear power plants. This was reported by the State Statistics Service (Gosstat), betrayed by Interfax-Ukraine.
According to the report, nuclear fuel worth $ 148,5 million was purchased from the Swedish daughter of the American company Westinghouse. Fuel worth $ 374,6 million was purchased from the Russian company TVEL.
As a result, the share of Ukrainian purchases of nuclear fuel in 2018 from TVEL in monetary terms amounted to 71,6%, from Westinghouse - 28,4%.
in 2017, Ukraine purchased nuclear fuel for $ 533,4 million: from Russia - for $ 368,96 million (69,2%), and from Sweden - for $ 164,45 million (30,8%).
In 2016, Ukraine purchased fuel for $ 548,81 million (from Russia - $ 386,782 million and from Sweden $ 162,028 million).
in 2014 - by $ 628,176 million (from the Russian Federation - by $ 588,831 million, Sweden - by $ 39,345 million), in 2013 - by $ 600,596 million (all from the Russian Federation), in 2012 - by $ 600,334 million (from the Russian Federation - by 555,355 million dollars, Sweden - by 44,979 million dollars).

That still, the share of the Russian Federation is growing in 2018 .. and this year so far at 50%

[Den717]

Quote: Antares

And yes, TVEL is a little cheaper.

Right? Is there data on the contract? Can you share?

[Antares]

Quote: Den717

Right? Is there data on the contract? Can you share?

is it because of the "secret contract"?
an agreement with the Russian TVEL company extending the contract for the supply of nuclear fuel to most power units of Ukrainian nuclear power plants until 2025, which expires in 2020.
The agreement signed by Energoatom with the Russians secures TVEL's dominant position in the Ukrainian market until 2025 (8 reactors out of 15).
(which is confirmed by the statistics that I cited for 2018 - the proportion of fuel elements in front of the Swedes is growing)
To date, the situation is as follows: TVEL supplies fuel to 9 Ukrainian reactors (7 - VVER-1000, 2 - VVER-440), Westinghouse - 6 (all VVER-1000).
in September 2018, Energoatom signed an additional agreement with TVEL OJSC until 2025. And immediately stressed that earlier, in January 2018, an additional agreement was also signed with the American company Westinghouse.
The presence of which, on the Ukrainian market, allowed Kiev to scare TVEL with an increase in the share of Americans and to bargain for more favorable terms for the supply of Russian assemblies.
According to market experts, prices for American and Russian fuel per kilogram of heavy metal are comparableand at present, according to Y. Nedashkovsky, "the price of Russian and American assemblies is falling very sharply as a result of the reduction in the cost of nuclear fuel components on the world market." But, according to experts, in terms of price / quality ratio, American assemblies are better - they are more energetic, they have more uranium, they are more functional (you can remove and replace fuel rods - fuel tubes), American fuel assemblies also have performance characteristics for four years. better than Russian ones (they have less deformations). In addition, according to Y. Nedashkovsky, “we buy finished fuel and almost all components from TVEL”, and with Westinghouse, there is a slightly different scheme - “we ourselves, at open tenders, buy uranium enriched product on international markets and buy where they offer best conditions and prices "
More on contract and prices
"the pricing methodology for TVEL fuel is provided only until 2020
With the Russians in September, they adjusted the price, reduced volumes and limited the validity period until 2025, as with Westinghouse "
contract with TVEL, it contains provisions allowing the Ukrainian side to revise (reduce) fuel supplies if the Russian company does not fulfill the most important contractual obligation - to build a plant for the production of fuel assemblies in Ukraine
elimination of penalties and possible lawsuits from TVEL JSC in connection with under-ordering of nuclear fuel supplies due to an increase in Westinghouse nuclear fuel supplies
Well and most importantly, TVEL actively for the third time proposed to build a fuel plant in Ukraine.
For a concrete struggle unfolded in earnest.
Few Americans - so also the Chinese climb
China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation with its offers since 2018 ..

[rocket757]

The country of the victorious .... now like a monkey with a grenade. Large, vigorous, grenade.

[Brturin]

Quote: rocket757

now like a monkey with a grenade

Until the reactors so far ..., and so in August at the Khmelnytsky NPP, when starting up after repairs, the turbine generator was ditched, according to one of the versions "in the cooling system they forgot the wad from the cloth used to clean the cooling system" - 4 billion hryvnias ...

[alien308]

Nevertheless, TVEL is working on a TVS-square. How can they act like Westerners?

[rocket757]

If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be possible to send and forget .... but it’s very dangerous next to us.

[ser56]

Quote: rocket757

but, it’s very dangerous and next to us.

Do not exaggerate - all the blocks at these VVER-type NPPs, they are equipped with a hemoblock ... in the worst case, it will be like in Japan, but something serious will most likely break / break, and there will be no money to fix it - it's like with a generator in Khmelnitsky. .. And they will stand ...

[Brturin]

Quote: alien308

TVS-square

The square is for "western" reactors. Rosatom is creating the so-called "tolerant fuel", they would call it emergency fuel in Russian, they recently reported that they had finished testing it in a research reactor, and next year they would be loading it into an operating nuclear power plant (they talked about Rostov). With these it will be calmer, but when ...

[Politruk-m]

It's scary to read such articles about the Okraine..It immediately comes to mind, "Don't get anyone else ..." They will sell and take out the black soil and undermine them, hiding their tracks, while they themselves scatter around the world .. And Russia to disentangle it.

[Tusv]

Quote: Politruk-M

Immediately I remember "Do not get you to anyone ..

So far, no limitrophy is worth fighting for Ukraine. If it doesn’t work out, we all know who to call chocks

[ser56]

There is only one hope - after a fairly short period of time, the units at Ukrainian NPPs will be crumbled: the operational life is running out, measures to extend the life are either not conducted, or cosmetic bags are being conducted, professionals are leaving ...