OREANDA-NEWS. On 23 June 2008 was announced, that the III Innovation Forum of Rosatom summarized the results of the contest of innovation projects of enterprises and institutes of nuclear industry. TVEL Corporation became a General Partner of the Forum for the second year running.

In the final part of the Forum TVEL Corporation was represented by JSC “Mashinostroitelny Zavod” (Elektrostal, Moscow Region) and JSC “Chepetsky Mechanical Plant” (Glazov, the Republic of Udmurtia).

JSC “MSZ” was awarded an honorary diploma for development of unique furnace for burning hard radioactive wastes. Advantage of the furnace manufactured by the plant is the modern heat and acid resistant materials that extend its service life before repair. Besides due to optimization of design the furnace price is much lower than of domestic and foreign models of similar application.

Chepetsky Mechanical Plant was awarded with diploma for the innovation project “Organization and mastering the titanium production”. The Head of Rosatom Sergey Kirienko inspected the presentation stand of JSC CMP and discussed the developments of the plant with TVEL Corporation President Yuri Olenin and Director-General of the plant Sergey Sukharev who participated in the forum.

The project of JSC CMP allows to create in Russia its own production of titanium tubes used in ship engineering, power plants, NPP steam generators. At present titanium tubes are supplied by the Ukrainian “Pipe manufacturing plant VSMPO-AVISMA” (Nikopol), which, in its turn, uses pipe billets of the “Saladin Metallurgical Plant” (Russia). Now the necessary capacity for titanium pipes manufacturing are being created at CMP.

JSC “Atomenergoprom” deputy director Piotr Schedrovitsky  underlined an important role of TVEL Corporation in organization and holding of the forum: “TVEL apart from being the Forum General Partner always takes part in innovation processes in the industry”.

All visitors of the III Innovation Forum marked that the level of presented developments is growing with each year. The level of projects’ presentation is also growing and their authors from the very beginning start to think about such questions as payback, prospects of introduction into production and, main thing, looking for perspective markets.