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Appendix F — Enrichment plants

The table below lists the safeguards status of all commercial-scale enrichment facilities that are currently in operation, being commissioned, under construction or planned.

 

COUNTRY

FACILITY
(Location / Owner)

OPERATIONAL STATUS

SAFEGUARDS STATUS

Brazil

Resende Enrichment
(Rio de Janeiro / INB)

Commissioning

Yes

China

Shaanxi
(Hanzhong / CNNC)

In operation

Yes

Lanzhou II
(Gansu / CNNC)

In operation

Offered

France

Eurodif (Georges Besse)
(Tricastin / Areva)

In operation

Offered

George Besse II
(Tricastin / Areva)

Under construction

Yes

Germany

Urenco Deutschland GmbH
(Gronau / Urenco)

In operation

Yes

India

Rattehalli (military)
(Mysore / DAE)

In operation

No

Iran

Natanz

In operation
(being expanded)

Yes

Japan

Rokkasho Uranium Enrichment Plant
(Rokkasho-mura / JNFL)

In operation

Yes

Netherlands

Urenco Nederland
(Almelo / Urenco)

In operation

Yes

Pakistan

Kahuta (military)
(Punjab / PAEC)

In operation

No

Chak Jhumra

(Punjab / PAEC)

Planned

Offered

Russian Federation

Angarsk II
(Irkutsk / Minatom)

Planned

Not known

Angarsk I (International Uranium Enrichment Centre)
(Irkutsk / Techsnabexport)

In operation

Offered

Novouralsk
(Yekaterinburg / Minatom)

In operation

No

Zelenogorsk
(Krasnoyarsk / Minatom)

In operation

No

Seversk
(Tomsk / Minatom)

In operation

No

United Kingdom

Capenhurst
(Cheshire / Urenco)

In operation

Yes

United States

Paducah
(Kentucky / USEC)

In operation

Offered

American Centrifuge Plant (Piketon, Ohio / USEC)

Under construction

Offered

National Enrichment Facility
(Eunice, New Mexico / LES, Urenco)

Under construction

Offered

Eagle Rock
(Idaho / Areva)

Planned

To be offered

Global Laser Enrichment
(Wilmington, North Carolina / GE-Hitachi)

Planned

To be offered

 

Source        International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), Global Fissile Material Report 2008, IPFM, Princeton NJ, 2008, pp. 38–42; Wilmington Media, World Nuclear Industry Handbook 2008, Nuclear Engineering International, Kent, 2008, pp. 211–212; IAEA, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System, 2009, viewed 31 August 2009, <http://www-nfcis.iaea.org/NFCIS/NFCISMAin.asp>; A Glaser, ‘Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle’, Research paper commissioned by the ICNND, February 2009, p. 20, viewed 31 August 2009, <http://www.icnnd.org/latest/research/index.html>.

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