Lanzhou enrichment plant
Lanzhou enrichment plant is a enrichment facility operated by China National Nuclear Corporation in China. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
China's largest enrichment plant, in Gansu. Began as a Russian centrifuge plant supplied under 1990s agreements and was expanded with indigenous machines. Offered for safeguards rather than under them: China is a weapon state and inspection is voluntary.
Facility
| Stage | Enrichment |
|---|---|
| Operator | China National Nuclear Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | 2026 |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 36.0611, 103.8343 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world enrichment capacity cannot be stated.
China National Nuclear Corporation also operates:
- Lanzhou conversion plant (conversion)
- Hengyang conversion plant (conversion)
- Diwopu (Jiuquan) (conversion)
- 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 enrichment facilities
Sources
- International Panel on Fissile Materials, detailed enrichment facilities table · retrieved 2026-09-06
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data