industry nuclear energy founded 1963 headquarters moscow russia key people lyudmila zalimskaya director general products nuclear fuel services nuclear fuel cycle parent rosatom website tenex.ru techsnabexport tenex also transcribed as tekhsnabexport russian is a russian nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel cycle technology exporting company . 1 it carries out export of enriched uranium products and uranium enrichment services produced by enterprises of the atomenergoprom 100 % shares of which are held by state corporation rosatom . contents 1 history 1.1 management 1.2 brief history of entering the world market 2 operations 2.1 foreign s & a 2.2 russian s & a 2.3 membership in international organizations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the company s origin began in 1949 when at the all union tekhnoexport working group of ten people was formed by the soviet union s ministry of foreign trade whose task was to organize the supply of uranium mining enterprises built by the soviet union to eastern europe . in 1952 on the basis of the working group was created bureau of procurement to cooperate with the soviet german joint stock company bismuth j chymov mines in czechoslovakia now quartz in romania kuznetsk mines in poland soviet bulgarian mining company . in 1955 during the reorganization tekhnoexport kontor in full transferred to mashinoexport . expansion of the list of goods supplied and increase in scale uranium imports led to the formulation of the question of the expansion of the office and make it independent of foreign status of the organization . july 17 1963 the ussr council of ministers decree 1477 established the export import firm tenex . in 1973 it was incorporated as a separate company under the ministry of foreign trade . in 1988 it was transferred to the ussr ministry of medium machine building and subsequently to the ussr ministry of atomic energy and industry now rosatom . in 1994 techsnabexport became a joint stock company . on 19 january 2007 russian parliament adopted the law on the peculiarities of the management and disposition of the property and shares of organizations using nuclear energy and on relevant changes to some legislative acts of the russian federation which created atomenergoprom a holding company for russian civil nuclear industry a part of rosatom including techsnabexport the nuclear energy producer rosenergoatom the nuclear fuel producer and supplier tvel and nuclear facilities constructor atomstroyexport . 2 3 management edit konstantin b. pushkin 1963 1964 ; 1980 1988 sergey g. arutuynov 1964 1973 evgeniy p. volchkov 1973 1980 albert a. shishkin 1988 1998 revmir g. frayshtut 1999 2001 vladimir a. smirnov 2002 2007 aleksey a. grigoriev 2007 2012 lyudmila m. zalimskaya 2013 present . brief history of entering the world market edit in 1971 jsc techsnabexport signs the first contract for the supply of uranium enrichment services with the atomic energy commission of france . in 1973 the first shipment of uranium products is delivered to france followed by uranium enrichment services for italy germany sweden and other european countries . in 1987 the first shipment of uranium enrichment services is delivered to the usa . in 1993 tenex enters the asia pacific market and signs the first long term contract with kepco republic of korea . in 1994 tenex signed heu leu contract with american enrichment corporation usec in compliance with the agreement dated as of february 18 1993 between the government of the russian federation and the government of the united states concerning the disposition of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons . in the framework of this agreement russia supplies low enriched uranium leu produced from 500 tons of highly enriched uranium heu for the needs of the us atomic energy industry . in 1995 jsc techsnabexport expands the geographical scope of its exports by starting deliveries of low enriched uranium to south africa under a contract with eskom an operator of the only npp in africa.in 1999 jsc techsnabexport enters the japanese market after signing its first contract with the largest private energy company tepco.in 2003 jsc techsnabexport begins the deliveries of low enriched uranium production to mexico.in 2008 state corporation rosatom and the us department of commerce sign the amendment to the agreement suspending the antidumping investigation on uranium products from russia prepared at the initiative and with direct involvement of jsc techsnabexport . this amendment creates a proper legal framework for commercial exports of russian uranium products to the us market that has been beyond its reach for as long as ten years . besides in 2008 jsc techsnabexport signs the contracts with the china nuclear energy industry corporation cneic for providing technical support in the construction of the 4th stage of the gas centrifuge plant in china and for supplies of uranium products for the chinese npp in 2010 2020 . these contracts are sighed in accordance with the protocol of 2007 to the russian chinese agreement on cooperation for construction in the people s republic of china of a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant dated as of december 18 1992 . in 2012 tenex signs a contract with emirates nuclear energy corporation for deliveries of low enriched uranium in 2015 2029 to meet the demand of the first in the arab world npp at barakah which is under construction . citation needed operations edit tenex exports enriched uranium products as well as uranium conversion and or isotope enrichment services to 32 companies in 16 countries . another field of tenex s activities is development of transport and logistical infrastructure . along with uranium products export tenex consolidates nuclear industry assets creating new types of business and integrating industrial production enterprises essential for the stable operation of the nuclear fuel cycle facilities . following the decision of state corporation rosatom these projects along with the assets in the field of uranium mining and isotope production were passed to other industry organizations for further development creation of jsc engineering centre russian gas centrifuge consolidating assets in the field of gas centrifuge design and manufacturing transferred to jsc tvel . creation of jsc khimpromengineering scientific and production complex which develops and manufactures carbon fibre materials as well as elaborates innovation projects in the field of chemical fibre and carbon composite materials transferred to the composite holding company . consolidation of russian and foreign assets in the uranium exploration and mining sector transferred to armz uranium holding co. creation of the international uranium enrichment center iuec in compliance with russian kazakhstan government to government agreement of 2007 . iuec shares are transferred to state corporation rosatom . creation of uranium enrichment center uec . uec shares owned by jsc techsnabexport are transferred to jsc tvel . export of isotope production manufacturing by russian nuclear industry enterprises transferred to jsc isotope . foreign s & a edit internexco gmbh frankfurt germany ; set up in 1989 tenex korea co. ltd. seoul republic of korea ; set up in 2003 tenex japan co. tokio japan ; set up in 2005 tradewill limited london uk ; set up in 2009 tenam corporation washington usa ; set up in 2010 russian s & a edit ojsc spb izotop share ownership 100 % ojsc npk khimpromengineering share ownership 52 % cjsc tenex logistika share ownership 100 % llc kraun share ownership 99 % membership in international organizations edit world nuclear association wna nuclear energy institute nei world nuclear fuel market wnfm japan atomic industry forum jaif korean atomic industrial forum kaif world nuclear transport institute wnti see also edit energy policy of russia nuclear power in russia rosatom references edit helmer john 1 may 2007 . russia gears up for uranium boom . mineweb . retrieved 20 august 2013 . russia s nuclear equipment exporter joins nuclear energy holding . ria novosti . 16 august 2007 . retrieved 20 august 2013 . consolidation of russian nuclear industry continues . world nuclear news . 7 april 2010 . retrieved 20 august 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title techsnabexport & oldid 715369185 categories companies of the soviet unionnuclear fuel companiesnuclear technology companies of russiarosatomgovernment owned companies of russiacompanies established in 1963nuclear technology in the soviet unionhidden categories articles containing russian language textall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 15 april 2016 at 10 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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