Ust-Kamenogorsk (ULBA)
Capacity
200tHM/yr
Ust-Kamenogorsk (ULBA) is a fabrication facility operated by NAC Kazatomprom in Kazakhstan. It has a capacity of 200 tHM/yr as of 2022, about 1% of world fabrication capacity.
Kazatomprom's fabrication plant, a joint venture with CGN supplying Chinese reactors. It moves Kazakhstan one step further down the chain than mining alone.
Facility
| Stage | Fabrication |
|---|---|
| Operator | NAC Kazatomprom |
| Country | Kazakhstan |
| Capacity | 200tHM/yr |
| Figure applies to | 2022 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 49.9500, 82.6100 |
Position in the chain
This facility is about 1% of world fabrication capacity (14,912 tHM/yr, 2022).
NAC Kazatomprom also operates:
- Karatau (Budenovskoye 2) (mining)
- Inkai, sites 1-3 (mining)
- Akdala and South Inkai (mining)
- Khorassan 1 (mining)
- Central Mynkuduk (mining)
- Budenovskoye 1, 3 & 4 (Akbastau) (mining)
- Kharasan 2 (Baiken-U) (mining)
- South Moinkum and Kanzhugan (mining)
- Irkol (mining)
- Western Mynkuduk (Appak) (mining)
- North and South Karamurun (mining)
- Zarechnoye (mining)
Other fabrication facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cameco Fuel Manufacturing, Port Hope | 1,650tHM/yr | operating |
| Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility | 1,600tHM/yr | operating |
| Elektrostal (MSZ) | 1,560tHM/yr | operating |
| Romans-sur-Isère (FBFC) | 1,400tHM/yr | operating |
| Richland | 1,200tHM/yr | operating |
| Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant | 1,200tHM/yr | operating |
| Toronto and Peterborough | 1,200tHM/yr | operating |
| Wilmington | 1,000tHM/yr | operating |
| Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad | 1,000tHM/yr | operating |
| Daejeon | 900tHM/yr | operating |
| Västerås | 800tHM/yr | operating |
| Yibin (CJNF) | 800tHM/yr | operating |
| Lingen (ANF) | 650tHM/yr | operating |
| Kurihama (GNF-J) | 630tHM/yr | operating |
| Springfields | 600tHM/yr | operating |
| Juzbado | 500tHM/yr | operating |
| Tokai-Mura (Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel) | 440tHM/yr | operating |
| Baotou (CBNF) | 400tHM/yr | operating |
| Kumatori (NFI) | 284tHM/yr | operating |
| Tokai-Mura (NFI) | 250tHM/yr | operating |
| Pitești | 250tHM/yr | operating |
| Baotou (CNNFC) | 246tHM/yr | operating |
| Resende | 240tHM/yr | operating |
| Ezeiza and Córdoba (Conuar) | 200tHM/yr | operating |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Fuel Fabrication · retrieved 2026-09-06