World Nuclear Fuel Facilities

(last updated 14 May 2008)

Contents:

• Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facilities
• Uranium Enrichment Facilities:   Gaseous Diffusion · Centrifuge
• Uranium Downblending Facilities
• Light Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities:   Uranium Oxide · Mixed Oxide
• Heavy Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities
• Nuclear Fuel Production Waste Treatment Facilities
• Further Information

Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facilities

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location a)	Capacity b) [MTU/year]
Brazil	IPEN	São Paulo	90
Canada	Cameco	Port Hope, Ontario [ISSUES] c)	10,500
China	CNNC	Lanzhou	400
France	COMURHEX (100% Areva NC )	Pierrelatte [ISSUES] e)	14,000
	Areva NC	Pierrelatte TU5 f) [ISSUES]	350
Iran	AEOI	Isfahan [ISSUES]	193
Russia	Rosatom	Ekaterinburg	4,000
		Angarsk	20,000
United Kingdom	British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd.	Springfields, Lancashire [ISSUES]	6,000
United States	Honeywell (Converdyn )	Metropolis, Illinois [ISSUES]	17,600
Total			73,133

^a) Conversion of U₃O₈ to uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) unless otherwise noted.
^b) Nominal capacity
^c) UO₃ to UF₆ . U₃O₈ is converted to UO₃ as an intermediate step at Blind River , Ontario [ISSUES].
^e) UF₄ to UF₆ . U₃O₈ is converted to UF₄ as an intermediate step at the Malvési plant [ISSUES].
^f) Conversion of reprocessed uranyl nitrate to UF₆.
MTU = metric tonnes of uranium.

Uranium Enrichment Facilities

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Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [1000 SWU]
Gaseous Diffusion Plants
China	CNNC	Lanzhou	900
France	EURODIF	Tricastin [ISSUES]	10,800
United States	U.S. Enrichment Corp.	Paducah, Kentucky [ISSUES]	11,300
		Portsmouth, Ohio (closed since May 11, 2001) [ISSUES]	(7,400)
Subtotal			23,000
Centrifuge Plants
Brazil	INB	Resende [ISSUES]	?
China	CNNC	Hanzhong	500
		Lanzhou [ISSUES]	500
France	Eurodif	Georges Besse II, Tricastin [ISSUES]	(under constr.)
Germany	Urenco Deutschland GmbH	Gronau [ISSUES]	1,800
India	DAE Nuclear Fuel Complex	Rattehalli, Karnataka	4.5
Iran	AEOI	Natanz [ISSUES]	?
Japan	JNC	Ningyo Toge	200
	Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited (JNFL)	Rokkasho-mura [ISSUES]	1,050
Netherlands	Urenco Nederland BV	Almelo [ISSUES]	3,600
Pakistan	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)	Kahuta	5
Russia	Rosatom	Urals Electrochemical Integrated Enterprise (UEIE) , Novouralsk (formerly Sverdlovsk-44, near Ekaterinburg) [ISSUES]	7,000
		Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) , Seversk (formerly Tomsk-7) [ISSUES]	4,000
		Electrochemical Plant (ECP) , Zelenogorsk (formerly Krasnoyarsk-45) [ISSUES]	3,000
		Angarsk Electrolytic Chemical Combine (AEKhK) , Angarsk [ISSUES]	1,000
United Kingdom	Urenco UK Ltd.	Capenhurst [ISSUES]	4,200
USA	Louisiana Energy Services	National Enrichment Facility, Lea County, NM [ISSUES]	(under constr.)
Subtotal			26,859.5
Total			49,859.5

^a) Nominal capacity
SWU = Separative Work Unit

Uranium Downblending Facilities

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTU/year]
United States	BWXT	Lynchburg, Virginia [ISSUES]
	NFS	Erwin, Tennessee [ISSUES]
	U.S. DOE	Savannah River Site , Aiken, South Carolina [ISSUES]
		Y-12 Plant , Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Russia	Rosatom	Urals Electrochemical Integrated Enterprise (UEIE) , Novouralsk (formerly Sverdlovsk-44)
		Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) ,Seversk (formerly Tomsk-7)
		Electrochemical Plant (ECP) , Zelenogorsk (formerly Krasnoyarsk-45)
Kazakhstan	Ulba Metallurgical Co (90% Kazatomprom )	Ust-Kamenogorsk [ISSUES]
Total

^a) Nominal capacity
MTU = metric tonnes of uranium

Light Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities

Uranium Oxide Fuel Fabrication
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Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTU/year]
Argentina	Dioxitek S.A.	Córdoba b) [ISSUES]
Belgium	FBFC (49% COGEMA , 51% Framatome )	Dessel	750
Brazil	FEC (INB )	Resende	100
China	CNNC	Yibin	100
France	FBFC (49% COGEMA , 51% Framatome )	Romans-sur-Isère [ISSUES]	820
	SICN (100% COGEMA )	Veurey-Voroise (closed) [ISSUES]	(150)
Germany	Advanced Nuclear Fuels (66% Areva , 34% Siemens )	Lingen [ISSUES]	650
India	DAE Nuclear Fuel Complex	Hyderabad [ISSUES]	25
Japan	Japan Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd.	Yokosuka City	750
	Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co. Ltd.	Tokai-Mura	440
	Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd	Kumatori	284
		Tokai-Mura	200
Kazakhstan	Ulba Metallurgical Co (90% Kazatomprom )	Ust-Kamenogorsk [ISSUES]	2,000
South Korea	KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd. (KNFC)	Taejon	400
Pakistan	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)	Kundian	?
Russia	JSC TVEL	ELEMASH , Elektrostal [ISSUES]	1,020
		NCCP , Novosibirsk [ISSUES]	1,000
Spain	ENUSA	Juzbado	300
Sweden	BNFL/Westinghouse Atom	Västerås	600
United Kingdom	British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd.	Springfields, Lancashire [ISSUES]	330
United States	Areva NP, Inc.	Lynchburg, Virginia [ISSUES]	400
		Richland, Washington [ISSUES]	700
	Westinghouse (100% BNFL )	Hematite, Missouri (closed) [ISSUES, OLD ISSUES]	(450)
		Columbia, S. Carolina [ISSUES]	1,600
	Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, L.L.C.	Wilmington, N. Carolina [ISSUES]	1,200
Total			13,669

Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication
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Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTIHM/year]
Belgium	Belgonucléaire SA	Dessel (closes July 31, 2006) [ISSUES]	37
France	COGEMA	Cadarache (somewhat closed) [ISSUES]	(40)
	MELOX (50% COGEMA , 50% Framatome )	Marcoule [ISSUES]	195
India	DAE Nuclear Fuel Complex	Tarapur	50
Japan	JNC	Tokai-Mura	10
United Kingdom	British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd.	Sellafield [ISSUES]	128
Total			420

^a) Nominal capacity
^b) conversion to UO2
MTU = metric tonnes of uranium.
MTIHM = metric tonnes of initial heavy metal.

Heavy Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTU/year]
Argentina	67% Pecom-Nuclear S.A., 33% CNEA	Ezeiza [ISSUES]	160
Canada	Zircatec Precision Industries	Port Hope, Ontario [ISSUES] b)	1,500
	GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.	Peterborough, Ontario [ISSUES] c)	1,200
India	DAE Nuclear Fuel Complex	Hyderabad	135
		Trombay	135
South Korea	KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd. (KNFC)	Taejon	400
Pakistan	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)	Chashma	20
Total			3,550

^a) Nominal capacity
^b) Processing of UO₂ only. Conversion of U₃O₈ to UO₃ is performed at Cameco's Blind River plant [ISSUES], and conversion of UO₃ to UO₂ at Cameco's Port Hope plant [ISSUES].
^c) UO₂ pellets are produced in GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.'s Toronto facility [ISSUES] and then assembled into fuel bundles in Peterborough.
MTU = metric tonnes of uranium.

Nuclear Fuel Production Waste Treatment Facilities

Source: Originally based on: U.S. DOE / Energy Information Administration: Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1996, DOE/EIA-0436(96), Washington DC, October 1996;
Updated from IAEA - NFCIS and other sources.

Further Information

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System - NFCIS (IAEA)

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