The first serial batch of nuclear fuel assemblies for BN-800 fast neutron reactor with mixed uranium-and-plutonium MOX fuel has successfully passed acceptance commissioning. The fuel pellets are manufactured from a mixture of oxides of depleted uranium accumulated at facilities of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom, and oxides of plutonium extracted during reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

Industrial production of MOX fuel at Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region) has been set up under the Federal Target Program, Next Generation Nuclear Power Technologies for 2010-2015 with the outlook until 2020. An industry-wide cooperation was established in order to set up the fuel fabrication facility at MCC. TVEL has the role of the coordinator in these interactions. The basic technology for manufacturing of MOX fuel pellets by mixing powders and applying swirl disintegration with further pressing and sintering was developed by the Bochvar Institute.