Nuclear Fuel Production Waste Treatment Facilities

Nuclear Fuel Production Waste Treatment Facilities

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTU/year]
Sweden	Ranstad Mineral AB	Ranstad [ISSUES]
United States	IUC	White Mesa Mill, Utah [ISSUES]

^a) Nominal capacity

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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.

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Further Information

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System, A Directory of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities, 2009 Edition, IAEA-TECDOC-1613 , International Atomic Energy Agency, April 2009 (1.4MB PDF )
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System - NFCIS  (IAEA)

Planta de Fabricación de Combustible Nuclear para HWR.

Heavy Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities

Map (Java required)

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTU/year]
Argentina	67% Pecom-Nuclear S.A., 33% CNEA	Ezeiza [ISSUES]	160
Canada	Cameco Corp.	Port Hope, Ontario [ISSUES] b)	1,500
	GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc.	Peterborough, Ontario [ISSUES] c)	1,200
China	CNNC	Baotou, Inner Mongolia	200
India	DAE Nuclear Fuel Complex	Hyderabad	135
		Trombay	135
Iran	AEOI	Isfahan [ISSUES]	35
Romania	Societatea Nationala Nuclearelectrica SA	Fabrica de Combustibil Nuclear Pitesti, Mioveni-Arges [ISSUES]	240
South Korea	KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd. (KNFC)	Taejon	400
Pakistan	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)	Chashma	20
Total			4,025

^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.

Planta de Fabricación de Combustible Nuclear para LWR.

Light Water Reactor Fuel Fabrication Facilities

Uranium Oxide Fuel Fabrication Map (Java required)

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 [ISSUES]	400
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.  (30% Areva  - planned)	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 [ISSUES]	300
Sweden	BNFL/Westinghouse Atom	Västerås [ISSUES]	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			13,969

Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Map (Java required)

Country	Owner/Controller	Plant Name/Location	Capacity a) [MTIHM/year]
Belgium	Belgonucléaire SA	Dessel (closes July 31, 2006) [ISSUES]	37
France	Areva NC	Cadarache (somewhat closed) [ISSUES]	(40)
	MELOX SA (100% Areva NC )	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.