Beishan underground research laboratory
Beishan underground research laboratory is a repository facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
China's candidate site in the Gobi desert of Gansu, where an underground laboratory is being excavated in granite. A repository is not expected before 2050, by which time China will have the largest reactor fleet in the world and a spent fuel inventory to match.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | - |
| Status | construction |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 41.2000, 96.8000 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world repository capacity cannot be stated.
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)
- Yibin (CJNF) (fabrication)
- Rössing (mining)
- Yining (mining)
- Fuzhou (mining)
- Shaoguan (mining)
- Tongliao (mining)
Other repository facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wolsong LILW Disposal Center, Gyeongju | 800,000drums | operating |
| Konrad | 303,000m³ | construction |
| Yucca Mountain | 70,000tHM total | closed |
| Asse II | 47,000m³ | closed |
| Morsleben (ERAM) | 37,000m³ | closed |
| Onkalo | not disclosed | construction |
| Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) | not disclosed | construction |
| Cigéo | not disclosed | planned |
| Canadian deep geological repository | not disclosed | planned |
| Nördlich Lägern | not disclosed | planned |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | not disclosed | operating |
| SFR, Forsmark | not disclosed | operating |
| Olkiluoto VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Loviisa VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Centre de l'Aube (CSA) | not disclosed | operating |
| El Cabril | not disclosed | operating |
| Low Level Waste Repository, Drigg | not disclosed | operating |
| Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center | not disclosed | operating |
| Bátaapáti National Radioactive Waste Repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Yeniseisky underground research laboratory, Krasnoyarsk | not disclosed | construction |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste · retrieved 2026-09-06
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