Uranium products

Fuel Pellets for Atomic Power Plants

ULBA Metallurgical Plant is capable to produce ceramic nuclear fuel pellets for power reactors of various types and provide services of processing a wide range of Uranium materials, including:

- UF2
- U oxides
- UNH (reprocessed feed material)
- Fuel process waste, including those containing Gd and Er
- Scrap of natural metal Uranium (UF4 + Mg, carbon crucible scrap)
- Scrap contaminated with Gd, Th, Tc, Si, C, Zr and Fe
- Research scrap of inconsistent composition
- Metal U based scrap
- Research fuel assemblies and fuel elements material, etc.

Currently ULBA Metallurgical Plant makes deliveries of fuel pellets for the nuclear reactors of the Russian design, such as RBMK and VVER (similar to PWR), including reprocessed Uranium pellets containing burnable neutron absorbers and pore forming and alloying additives.

  
RBMK Erbium alloyed pellets
  
VVER pellets
  
VVER pellets containing burnable absorbers
  
See pictures of the pellet microstructure

  Marketing Service of Uranium Production Department:
email: Marketing_U@ulba.kz
phone: 7 (7232) 29-83-69
fax: 7 (7232) 24-06-83, 7 (7232) 47-36-42

 


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