The Ural Electrochemical Combine is a company located in Novouralsk, Russia. It is a subsidiary of TVEL (Rosatom group).[1] Beginning in 1949, the plant began the production of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU).
History
The Ural Electrochemical Combine was important to the Soviet Union due to its history of foreign partnerships. The facility was heavily involved in the expansion of the Lanzhou uranium enrichment plant and another in Shaanxi, China, in the 1990s to serve China's domestic fuel needs.[2] The facility also enriched uranium for Kazakhstan, with the Soviet Union receiving a share of 50%, proportionate to the need to enrich to 6000 tU/yr.[3]
The Soviet Union began replacing its gaseous diffusion equipment with centrifuge technology in the 1960s.