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History JSC UMP
Uranium history
1952 -Board of Ministers of Soviet Union decided to create the Uranium raw material conversion production at "Ulba Metallurgical Plant"
1954 -commissioning of shop complex for natural Uranium concentrates conversion into U3O8 rebuilding of Uranium production shops, development of Uranium tetrafluoride production from natural raw material and by-products
1968 -creation of heat-generating elements fuel cores production for transport reactors based on Uranium-Beryllium compound
1973 -development of Uranium dioxide of nuclear purity ceramic grade of low enrichments (1.6-4.4% U235) from Uranium hexafluoride
1978 -"Ulba Metallurgical Plant" became the first in the Soviet Union plant beginning the serial production of fuel pellets from Uranium hexafluoride for a new generation reactors VVER-1000
1985 -Extraction-free production of powders and pellets was
1994 -development and implementation of process for fuel pellets with burn-out absorber additions as Gadolinium oxide for VVER-1000 reactors
1995 - First verification of Uranium was performed according to IAEA regulations. IAEA Safeguards were implemented.
1997 - Plasma conversion of Uranium Hexafluoride was introduced to make Uranium Dioxide.
1998 -first in Kazakhstan certification of Quality Assurance System of Uranium production for compliance with International standards of ISO-9002 Series
-a site of Uranium Hexafluoride decanting and homogenization was created and put into operation
2000 -development of fuel pellets with burn-out absorber additions as Erbium oxide production for RBMK-1000 reactors
2001 – manufacture of fuel pellets of the reprocessed feed material for WWER reactors was mastered.
- a process of converting Uranium-Gadolinium ash and scrap was developed and put into operation to produce Uranium of ceramic grade and nuclear purity.
2003 – a process of producing Uranium oxide as U3O8 of natural Uranium as chemical concentrate as for direct fluoridizing was introduced.
2004 – a site of fuel from fuel elements with highly enriched Uranium was started up.
2010 – Uranium production had been certified as the supplier of Uranium Dioxide powder produced from Uranium Hexafluoride for NFI, Japan;
- production of pellets for AFA 3G fuel assemblies were certified by AREVA NP, France and СJNF, China.
Beryllium history
1950 -The Ministry of Metallurgical Industry approved the design task for (BeOH)2 commercial production
1951 -start-up of the experimental shop division for (BeOH)2 and BeO production
1952 -first (BeOH)2 and BeO samples produced
1955 -construction of Beryllium metal cast production started
1956 -start-up of pure BeO production site
1958 -partial commissioning of shop 6 (ceramic production)
1961 -Beryllium metal production site construction completed
1963 -creation of Be metal products site
1966 -first metal produced by powder metallurgy method
1971 -powder production site commissioned (Building 662)
1973 -Beryllium under pressure processing site commissioned (Building 602)
1990 -accident at the Beryllium production (Building 662). Full conservation of the Beryllium production started
2000 -Beryllium metal production started-up Quality assurance system at the Beryllium production was certified in accordance with ISO-9002
2001 -Hydrometallurgy production for technical grade (BeOH)2 restored Creation of Beryllium Copper production.
Tantalum history
1950 -according to the Decree of Ministry of Metallurgical Industry there has been decided to create the production of Tantalum metal and its products in the Ulba Metallurgical Plant.
1951 -the first products output - Potassium Fluorotantalate
1952 -the production of Potassium Niobate is created
1959 -the start of the works on the production of Tantalum powders by Sodium thermic method
1960 -the start of the production of Tantalum powder by Sodium reduction from Potassium Fluorotantalate mastering the extractive technology of digestion and separation of Tantalum and Niobium
1961 -the implementation of the extractive technology of Tantalum digestion the start of mastering ingot production by vacuum-arc melting the first Tantalum metal moulds are produced mastering of sheet rolling the start of the Tantalum capacitor powders manufacturing for the production of electrolytic capacitors
1964 -the production of the first Tantalum ingots of high purity by the electron-beam melting method, the trial roll lots production
1965 -the start of Tantalum wire production
1966 -commissioning of the capacitor powders de-hydrating facility
1967 -the creation of foil production site and the start of mastering Tantalum foil production for capacitors
1980 -the creation of experimental facility for Tantalum reduction (LUV-1) and in 1982 - experimental and commercial facility D-450 for the production of powders for high voltage capacitors
1997 -the creation of Niobium Hydroxide, Niobium Pentoxide and the Ferroniobium production
2000 -two types of Tantalum products - Tantalum powders of capacitor grade of fragment type and Low Si Ferroniobium - were awarded with the diplomas and golden medals of the Kazakhstan Republic Exhibition "Astana-Expo-2000" (Astana, October'2000 as the Goods of 21st Century
2001 -Quality system of the Tantalum production was certified in accordance with the international standard ISO-9002.
2001 -The first trial samples of capacitor grade Tantalum powder with 32,000CV/g were produced
2002 -The commercial production of Niobium and its alloys for metallurgy and electronics commenced
2002 -New types of products, such as Yttrium refined Tantalum, TaW, NbZr and NbTi, were produced
2003 -Environmental Management System was certified for compliance with ISO 14001:1996
2003 -Quality Management System was certified for compliance with ISO 9001:2000
2003 -Production of Tantalum ingot with dia.250mm and Ta contained at 99.97% commenced
2003 -HF acid production started to use Fluorite originated from the Kazakhstani "Karadzhal" mine
Hydrofluoric acid. Background.
1951-1947 According to the decision Resolution of the Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy the design works on Hydrofluoric Acid production site were initiated by the institute "HydroAluminum".
1951 -Finished product output: 20% HF acid.
1952 -the site moved to the production of 40% HF acid of high purity for the needs of the Uranium production.
1960-63 Transfer to electrical heated furnaces.
1972-74 The first line of new building 30A was put into operation.
1999 -License for experimental mining of the Karadzhal fluorspar deposit (East-Kazakhstan region). The problem of supplying HF production with raw material was solved.
2000 -Fluorspar processing complex was put into operation at the Trial Lead Plant.
2001 -The problem of utilization of solid wastes was solved.
TOO Mashzavod history
1972 -By virtue of the Medium Machinery Ministry decision, the stop valves, end items and accessories production for atomic power industry is created at the UMP
1976 -The APS accessories production is transformed into a independent division
1986 -In the frames or conversion, the consumer goods production was established
1991 -The shop was transformed into Machine building plant, being part of the "UMP"JSC
1996 -Machine building plant was transformed into TOO "Mashzavod"
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