Yibin (CJNF)
Capacity
800tHM/yr
Yibin (CJNF) is a fabrication facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. It has a capacity of 800 tHM/yr as of 2022, about 5% of world fabrication capacity.
China's main LWR fuel plant, supplying the domestic PWR fleet.
Facility
| Stage | Fabrication |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | 800tHM/yr |
| Figure applies to | 2022 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 28.7700, 104.6200 |
Position in the chain
This facility is about 5% of world fabrication capacity (14,912 tHM/yr, 2022).
China National Nuclear Corporation also operates:
- Lanzhou conversion plant (conversion)
- Hengyang conversion plant (conversion)
- Diwopu (Jiuquan) (conversion)
- Lanzhou enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Hanzhong (Shaanxi) enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Emeishan enrichment plant (enrichment)
- Heping (Plant 814) (enrichment)
- Rössing (mining)
- Yining (mining)
- Fuzhou (mining)
- Shaoguan (mining)
- Tongliao (mining)
- Beishan underground research laboratory (repository)
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 |
| Lingen (ANF) | 650tHM/yr | operating |
| Kurihama (GNF-J) | 630tHM/yr | operating |
| Springfields | 600tHM/yr | operating |
| Juzbado | 500tHM/yr | operating |
| Nuclear Fuel Complex, Kota | 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 |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk (ULBA) | 200tHM/yr | operating |
| Ezeiza and Córdoba (Conuar) | 200tHM/yr | operating |
| Melox, Marcoule | 195tHM/yr | operating |
| J-MOX, Rokkasho | 130tHM/yr | construction |
| Sellafield MOX Plant | 120tHM/yr | shut down |
| Zheleznogorsk MOX plant | 60tHM/yr | operating |
| Isfahan Fuel Manufacturing Plant | not disclosed | uncertain |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Nuclear Fuel Fabrication · retrieved 2026-09-06
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