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Russia's Mashinostroitelny Zavod, a subsidiary of nuclear fuel company Tvel, has completed testing of fuel pellets produced using "dry" technology for the ageing Bilibino EGP-6 graphite-moderated boiling water reactors. Tvel said on 17 March that it had "begun to master" the technology in 2008 and had been using it to manufacture fuel for VVER reactors since 2010. "Dry" technology has several advantages over the "wet" variant, Tvel said. In addition to increasing productivity, the technology "eliminates the properties of powders produced in various configurations, lowers operating costs for equipment maintenance as well as processing costs", it said. The four EGP-6 reactors in eastern Siberia were constructed in the 1970s for cogeneration and are due to be decommissioned by 2022.

Date: Friday, 18 March 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-in-fuel-development-at-russian-enterprises-4843218

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