Global Nuclear Fuel
Global Nuclear Fuel is a USA company active in the nuclear fuel chain as fabricator.
A GE Vernova, Hitachi and Toshiba joint venture producing boiling water reactor fuel at Wilmington, North Carolina and, through GNF-J, at Kurihama in Japan.
| Headquarters | Wilmington, North Carolina, USA |
|---|---|
| Founded | not recorded |
| Ownership | jv |
| Parent | GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy |
| Roles in the chain | fabricator |
Position in the chain
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington | fabrication | USA | 1,000tHM/yr | operating |
| Kurihama (GNF-J) | fabrication | JPN | 630tHM/yr | operating |
Global Nuclear Fuel in context
In fabrication Global Nuclear Fuel holds 1,630 of the 14,912 tHM/yr of world fabrication capacity in 2022 (11%), ranking 4th of the 6 named operators in the source.
Global Nuclear Fuel has 2 facilities on record in 2 countries (United States and Japan): 2 operating.
Share of each stage it works in
| Stage | Company | World total | Share | Rank | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabrication | 1,630tHM/yr | 14,912(2022) | 11% | 4 of 6 | World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Fuel Fabrication |
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
What it supplies
| Product | For | Operating units of that kind |
|---|---|---|
| BWR fuel assemblies | bwr | - |
Recorded as capability against a reactor type or model line rather than against named units, because utilities do not publish fuel contracts.
Sources
- Global Nuclear Fuel, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data