Diwopu (Jiuquan)
Diwopu (Jiuquan) is a conversion facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. It has a capacity of 500 tU/yr as UF6 as of 2018, about 1% of world conversion capacity.
The smallest of the three, in Gansu, run by the CNNC 404 company on a site whose main history is military rather than commercial.
| Stage | Conversion |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | 500tU/yr as UF6 |
| Figure applies to | 2018 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 39.7333, 98.5167 |
This facility is about 1% of world conversion capacity (62,000 tU/yr as UF6, 2022).
China National Nuclear Corporation also operates:
- Lanzhou conversion plant (conversion)
- Hengyang conversion plant (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 |
| Lanzhou conversion plant | 5,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Hengyang conversion plant | 3,000tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Elektrostal (Elemash) reprocessed uranium conversion | 700tU/yr as UF6 | operating |
| Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility | 200tU/yr as UF6 | uncertain |
| Springfields conversion line | not disclosed | shut down |
At the market indicator. 500 tU/yr of nameplate capacity, valued at US$ 65.00 per kgU spot, comes to roughly US$ 33 million a year, or US$ 28 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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