Hanzhong (Shaanxi) enrichment plant
Hanzhong (Shaanxi) enrichment plant is a enrichment facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. It has a capacity of 2,700 tSWU/yr as of 2026, about 4% of world enrichment capacity.
The other plant built under the Russian agreements, in Shaanxi, and since expanded with Chinese centrifuges. IPFM records its safeguards status in parentheses, its notation for a fact it cannot fully confirm; the notation is reproduced here rather than interpreted.
| Stage | Enrichment |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | 2,700tSWU/yr |
| Figure applies to | 2026 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 33.0667, 107.0333 |
This facility is about 4% of world enrichment capacity (68,076 tSWU/yr, 2025).
China National Nuclear Corporation also operates:
- Lanzhou conversion plant (conversion)
- Hengyang conversion plant (conversion)
- Diwopu (Jiuquan) (conversion)
- Lanzhou enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Emeishan enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Heping (Plant 814) (enrichment)
- Yibin (CJNF) (fabrication)
- Rössing (mining)
- Yining (mining)
- Fuzhou (mining)
- Shaoguan (mining)
- Tongliao (mining)
- Beishan underground research laboratory (repository)
Other enrichment facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Novouralsk (Urals Electrochemical Combine) | 13,300tSWU/yr | operating |
| Zelenogorsk (Electrochemical Plant) | 7,900tSWU/yr | operating |
| Georges Besse II, Tricastin | 7,500tSWU/yr | operating |
| Project IKE, Oak Ridge | 7,500tSWU/yr | licensing |
| Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility | 6,000tSWU/yr | planned |
| Urenco Almelo | 5,100tSWU/yr | operating |
| Urenco USA, National Enrichment Facility | 4,650tSWU/yr | operating |
| Urenco Capenhurst | 4,500tSWU/yr | operating |
| Angarsk (Electrolysis Chemical Combine) | 4,000tSWU/yr | operating |
| Seversk (Siberian Chemical Combine) | 3,800tSWU/yr | operating |
| Urenco Gronau | 3,600tSWU/yr | operating |
| Heping (Plant 814) | 230tSWU/yr | operating |
| Rokkasho Enrichment Plant | 150tSWU/yr | operating |
| Resende enrichment plant | 50tSWU/yr | operating |
| Lanzhou enrichment plant | not disclosed | operating |
| Emeishan enrichment plant | not disclosed | operating |
| Pilcaniyeu | not disclosed | not operating |
| Ratehalli (Rare Materials Plant) | not disclosed | operating |
| Kahuta (Khan Research Laboratories) | not disclosed | operating |
| Gadwal | not disclosed | operating |
| Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant | not disclosed | uncertain |
| Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant | not disclosed | uncertain |
| Yongbyon enrichment plant | not disclosed | operating |
| Kangson | not disclosed | operating |
At the market indicator. 2,700 tSWU/yr of nameplate capacity, valued at US$ 200.00 per SWU spot, comes to roughly US$ 540 million a year, or US$ 494 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
- International Panel on Fissile Materials, detailed enrichment facilities table · 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