IEER ENERGY & SECURITY #2

Selected Reprocessing Facilities


Notes:
Not shown: Two small-scale commercial facilities in Belgium and Germany which are no longer operating; pilot or research facilities.
1. The T, B, and U plants, which were the first reprocessing facilities in the world, operated at Hanford in the 1940s and early 50s.
2. While the capacity implied by the name UP2-800 (the "nominal capcity") is 800 metric tons per year, the actual functioning (or design) capacity of this facility is higher. Since EDF has contracts with Cogéma to reprocess 850 metric tons of spent fuel per year at UP2-800, this figure is a more accurate indication of the design capacity.
3. RT-1 operated as a military plant 1956-76, and for commercial purposes 1977-.

Location Type Facility Capacity
metric tons/yr.		 Dates of Operation
Chelyabinsk/Ozersk Military/Commercial RT-1
-
 1956-
Dounreay Military D1204
D1206
-
 1958-
1958-98?
Guangyuan, Sichuan Military Plant 821
-
 late 1960s-
Hanford Military REDOX
PUREX
-
 1951-66
1956-88
INEEL
(Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory) 		Military Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
-
 1953-92
Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex Military Plant 404
-
 1970-
Kalpakkam Commercial KARP
100
1996-
Krasnoyarsk/Zheleznogorsk Commercial RT-2
-
 2005?-
Krasnoyarsk/Zheleznogorsk Military Mining-Chemical Complex
-
 1964-
La Hague Commercial UP2
UP2-800
UP3
400
850
800
1966-93
1994-
1990-
Marcoule Military UP1
400
1958-97
Rokkasho Commercial Rokkasho-mura
800
2003?-
Savannah River Site Military F Canyon
H Canyon
-
 1953-
Tarapur Commercial PREFRE
100
1982-
Tokai Commercial Tokai-mura
100
1977-
Tomsk/Seversk Military Siberia Chemical Complex
-
 1956?-
Trombay Military BARC
-
 1964-
West Valley Commercial
-
300
1966-72
Windscale Military B204
-
 1951-64
Windscale/Sellafield Military/Commercial B205
THORP
1500
700
1964-
1994-


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