Elektrostal (Elemash) reprocessed uranium conversion
Elektrostal (Elemash) reprocessed uranium conversion is a conversion facility operated by TVEL Fuel Company in Russia. It has a capacity of 700 tU/yr as UF6 as of 2026, about 1% of world conversion capacity.
Not a natural uranium converter. Elektrostal converts uranium recovered from reprocessed spent fuel, which is chemically the same job on a feedstock the rest of the industry never handles, and which carries U-232 and U-236 that make it more radioactive and less reactive than natural uranium. Russia is the only country that does this at commercial scale, and it is why Russian fuel can contain material that has been through a reactor before.
| Stage | Conversion |
|---|---|
| Operator | TVEL Fuel Company |
| Country | Russia |
| Capacity | 700tU/yr as UF6 |
| Figure applies to | 2026 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 55.7833, 38.4500 |
This facility is about 1% of world conversion capacity (62,000 tU/yr as UF6, 2022).
TVEL Fuel Company also operates:
- Novouralsk (Urals Electrochemical Combine) (enrichment)
- Zelenogorsk (Electrochemical Plant) (enrichment)
- Angarsk (Electrolysis Chemical Combine) (enrichment)
- Seversk (Siberian Chemical Combine) (enrichment)
- Elektrostal (MSZ) (fabrication)
- Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (fabrication)
Other conversion facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Malvési and Philippe Coste (Tricastin) | 15,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Port Hope Conversion Facility | 12,500tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Siberian Chemical Combine, Seversk | 12,500tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Metropolis Works | 7,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Lanzhou conversion plant | 5,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Hengyang conversion plant | 3,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Diwopu (Jiuquan) | 500tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility | 200tU/yr as UF6 | uncertain |
| Springfields conversion line | not disclosed | shut down |
At the market indicator. 700 tU/yr of nameplate capacity, valued at US$ 65.00 per kgU spot, comes to roughly US$ 46 million a year, or US$ 39 million at the long-term indicator. Treat both as scale, not revenue: most volume moves under contracts signed years earlier at prices neither figure reflects, and nothing here is netted against the cost of producing it. The indicators, and forty years of history behind them, are on fuel market prices.
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Russia's Nuclear Fuel Cycle · retrieved 2026-09-06
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