Bangladesh, Feb. 4 -- TVEL, Fuel Company of Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation has started testing accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) for nuclear reactors.
Accident-tolerant fuel is resistant to severe accidents at nuclear power plants. It is expected to keep its integrity for a quite a long enough time without a zirconium-steam reaction that induces hydrogen release.
First two assemblies accident-tolerant fuel have been manufactured at Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant. Tests are being conducted at MIR research reactor in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.
"The fabrication of the first accident tolerant fuel followed the large-scale work of scientists and engineers of TVEL, including in-depth materials research, introduction of new coa...