{"id":537910,"date":"2022-11-23T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537910"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:58:39","slug":"russias-nuclear-fuel-firm-busy-breeding-new-kinds-of-fuels-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russias-nuclear-fuel-firm-busy-breeding-new-kinds-of-fuels-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s nuclear fuel firm busy &#8216;breeding&#8217; new kinds of fuels, technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL Fuel Company is &#8220;breeding&#8221; or developing new kinds of fuels and technologies that increase refueling cycle; a balanced integrated fuel cycle for traditional and fast breeder reactors, 3D printing and others, said a senior company official.<\/p>\n<p>TVE Fuel is part of Russia&#8217;s integrated nuclear power company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the six 1,000 MW units at Kudankulam in India will be powered by TVS 2M fuel. The fuel has been introduced in Unit 1,&#8221; Alexander Ugryumov, Senior Vice-President for Research and Development said.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier fuel that was used in Unit 1 was called UTVS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2024 we will do the same in Unit 2. With the new fuel the units will operate with an 18 month refueling cycle from earlier 12 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL Fuel Company is &#8220;breeding&#8221; or developing new kinds of fuels and technologies that increase refueling cycle; a balanced integrated fuel cycle for traditional and fast breeder reactors, 3D printing and others, said a senior company official. TVE Fuel is part of Russia&#8217;s integrated nuclear power company. &#8220;All the six 1,000 MW units at Kudankulam in India will be powered by TVS 2M fuel. The fuel has been introduced in Unit 1,&#8221; Alexander Ugryumov, Senior Vice-President for Research and Development said. The earlier fuel that was used in Unit 1 was called UTVS. &#8220;In 2024 we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}