OREANDA-NEWS. A certification audit of the corporate management system (QMS) of the TVEL Corporation against international standard ISO 9001:2000 was successfully completed. Leading enterprises of the Corporation - JSC TVEL, JSC MSZ, JSC NCCP, JSC ChMP and JSC TVEL-Invest - has been granted certificates conforming that they had implemented quality management systems which meet requirements of this standard. The audit was carried out by a well-known German certification authority TUV CERT.

By this, the long-term project to standardize QMS applied at the Corporation’s enterprises was finished. The TVEL Corporation’s quality management system has become the first in the nuclear industry and one of the first implemented in Russia. It will allow assuring quality at all stages of the production cycle.

JSC TVEL has made the systematic work in the area of quality assurance its long-term strategy’s element. It is worth noting that the first certificate of conformance for QMS against the ISO 9000 series standards was granted to an enterprise of the TVEL Corporation - JSC MSZ. The consistent work in the field of quality assurance makes the Russian nuclear fuel producer a successful competitor to western fuel suppliers in the world market in conditions where foreign consumers pay serious attention to QMS conformance to ISO 9000 series standards.