Lanzhou conversion plant
Lanzhou conversion plant is a conversion facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. It has a capacity of 5,000 tU/yr as UF6 as of 2018, about 8% of world conversion capacity.
China's main conversion plant, in Gansu, on the same site as its largest enrichment plant. The original 1,000 tU/yr facility from 1980 is reported closed.
| Stage | Conversion |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | 5,000tU/yr as UF6 |
| Figure applies to | 2018 |
| Note on the figure | reported to run at about 80% of this, with a 9,000 tU/yr plant reported under construction |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 36.0611, 103.8343 |
This facility is about 8% of world conversion capacity (62,000 tU/yr as UF6, 2022).
China National Nuclear Corporation also operates:
- Hengyang conversion plant (conversion)
- Diwopu (Jiuquan) (conversion)
- Lanzhou enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Hanzhong (Shaanxi) 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 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 |
| Hengyang conversion plant | 3,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Elektrostal (Elemash) reprocessed uranium conversion | 700tU/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. 5,000 tU/yr of nameplate capacity, valued at US$ 65.00 per kgU spot, comes to roughly US$ 325 million a year, or US$ 278 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, China's Nuclear Fuel Cycle · retrieved 2026-09-06
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