俄罗斯向美国公司供应浓缩铀, Energoatom Concern
Release Date: 2009-05-27
Three companies of Fuelco LLC and Techsnabexport have signed long-term contracts for enriched uranium supply
Techsnabexport OJSC (Tenex) and three companies of Fuelco LLC (the United States) have signed three long-term contracts for the supply of enriched uranium. The contracts were signed at the central office of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation in the presence of Director General of the Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko.
These contracts are the first since the adoption of an amendment to the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Uranium from the Russian Federation in 2008. The contracts envisage direct supply of enriched uranium to the three US companies in 2014–2020. The uranium will be supplied from one of the four Russian plants having modern highly efficient centrifuges and based on the high scientific-technical potential of the Russian enrichment industry.
After the signing of the contracts the American delegates visited Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex (AECC) to see the Russian uranium enrichment technologies.
The signing of the contracts is the result of the effective cooperation between the US companies and Tenex in the last few years.
Fuelco LLC was established in 2003 for supplying nuclear fuel and related services to its member companies and comprises Pacific Energy Fuels, Pacific Gas&Electric Company, headquartered in San-Francisco (California), Union Electric Company (AmmerenUE), Ameren, headquarter in St.Louis (Missouri), and Luminant, headquartered in Dallas (Texas). Fuelco companies supply electricity and related services to clients in California, Missouri, Illinois and Texas
JSC «Techsnabexport» — brand name TENEX — is Open Joint Stock Company with 100 per cent shares held by the JSC «Atomenergoprom» — integrated company in the civilian sector of Russian nuclear industry. For 45 years it has carried out faultless activities at the world market, management and highly skilled employees. Tenex is the world’s largest exporter of products and services of the Russian nuclear fuel cycle with a substantial share in the industry’s total foreign trade turnover. It delivers Russian uranium products to meet reactor requirements of NPP’s in the USA — 40 per cent, Western Europe -23 per cent, Asian and Pacific Region -16 per cent. Tenex is Executive Agent under Russian-US government-to-government Agreement on deliveries to the USA of low-enriched uranium downblended from highly enriched uranium extracted from dismantled warheads (HEU-LEU Agreement). The Company operates in the high-tech sector and making investments in core facilities in the nuclear industry and machine building manufacturing high-tech equipment and components for Russian isotope separation plants. Tenex is dynamically developing Company playing a leading role in creating a competitive environment, establishing market place mechanisms and mastering new markets.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | Energoatom Concern |
| Country: | 俄罗斯 |