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==List of sites== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Country ! Reprocessing site ! Fuel type ! Procedure ! Reprocessing<br />capacity tHM/yr ! Commissioning<br />or operating period |- | {{flag|Belgium}} || Mol || [[LWR]], MTR (Material test reactor) || || 80<ref name=EuroNuclear>{{cite web |url=http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/r/reprocessing-plants-ww.htm |title=Reprocessing plants, world-wide |publisher=[[European Nuclear Society]] |access-date=29 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622040852/http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/r/reprocessing-plants-ww.htm |archive-date=22 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> || style="background:#e21;"| 1966–1974<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|China}} || intermediate pilot plant<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/pdf/11_1Wright.pdf |title=Estimating China's Production of Plutonium for Weapons |doi=10.1080/08929880309007 |year=2003 |last1=Wright |first1=David |last2=Gronlund |first2=Lisbeth |author2-link=Lisbeth Gronlund |journal=Science & Global Security |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=61–80 |bibcode=2003S&GS...11...61W |s2cid=55755131 |access-date=14 January 2011 |archive-date=19 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019175432/http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/pdf/11_1Wright.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> || || || 60–100 || style="background:#e21;"| 1968-early 1970s |- | {{flag|China}} || Plant 404<ref>, Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex [http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/2702753168/china-and-reprocessing-separating-fact-from-fiction All Things Nuclear • China and Reprocessing: Separating Fact from Fiction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318072026/http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/2702753168/china-and-reprocessing-separating-fact-from-fiction |date=18 March 2011 }}. Allthingsnuclear.org (11 January 2011). Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> || || || 50 || style="background:#3a3;"| 2004 |- | {{flag|China}}, Gansu Province || Gansu Nuclear Technology Industrial Park, Jinta || || || || style="background:#e21;"| under construction (2030) |- | {{flag|Germany}} || Karlsruhe, WAK || LWR<ref name=Princeton>{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1995/9530/953007.PDF |title=Civil Reprocessing Facilities |publisher=[[Princeton University]] |access-date=30 July 2008 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802104946/http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1995/9530/953007.PDF |url-status=live }}</ref>|| || 35<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1971–1990<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|France}} || Marcoule, UP 1 || Military || || 1200<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1958<ref name=EuroNuclear/>-1997<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/france/marcoule.htm |title=Marcoule – Valrho |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=30 July 2008 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923182313/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/france/marcoule.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|France}} || Marcoule, CEA APM || [[Fast Breeder Reactor|FBR]] || PUREX DIAMEX SANEX<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jnst/44/3/44_410/_article |doi=10.3327/jnst.44.410 |title=Status of the French Research Program on Partitioning and Transmutation |author=Dominique Warin |year=2007 |journal=Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology |volume=44 |page=410 |issue=3 |doi-access=free }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> || 6<ref name=Princeton/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1988–present<ref name=Princeton/> |- | {{flag|France}} || La Hague, UP 2 || LWR<ref name=Princeton/>|| PUREX<ref name=FranceNucleaire> {{cite web |url=http://www.francenuc.org/en_sites/lnorm_hague_e.htm |title=BASSE-NORMANDIE- LOWER NORMANDY, La Hague |publisher=France Nucleaire |access-date=31 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716141530/http://www.francenuc.org/en_sites/lnorm_hague_e.htm |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref> || 900<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"|1967–1974<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|France}} || La Hague, UP 2–400 || LWR<ref name=Princeton/> || PUREX<ref name=FranceNucleaire/> || 400<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"|1976–1990<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|France}} || [[COGEMA La Hague site|La Hague]], UP 2–800 || LWR || PUREX<ref name=FranceNucleaire/> || 800<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1990<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|France}} || [[COGEMA La Hague site|La Hague]], UP 3 || LWR || PUREX<ref name=FranceNucleaire/> || 800<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1990<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|UK}} || Windscale, [[Sellafield#First Generation Reprocessing Plant|B204]]|| [[Magnox]], LWR || BUTEX || 750<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;" | 1956–1962,<ref name=EuroNuclear/> 1969-1973 |- | {{flag|UK}} || [[Sellafield]], [[Magnox Reprocessing Plant]] || Magnox,<ref name=Princeton/> LWR, FBR || PUREX || 1500<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1964<ref name=EuroNuclear/>-2022 |- | {{flag|UK}} || [[Dounreay]] || FBR<ref name=Princeton/> || || 8<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1980<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|UK}} || [[Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant|THORP]] || [[Advanced gas-cooled reactor|AGR]], LWR || PUREX || 900<ref name=EuroNuclear/><ref name=wnalist13/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1994<ref name=EuroNuclear/><ref name=wnalist13>{{cite web|url=http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Fuel-Recycling/Processing-of-Used-Nuclear-Fuel/|title=Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel|date=September 2013|publisher=World Nuclear Association|access-date=5 December 2013|archive-date=23 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123112054/http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Fuel-Recycling/Processing-of-Used-Nuclear-Fuel/|url-status=live}}</ref>-2018 |- | {{flag|Italy}} || Rotondella || [[Thorium fuel cycle|Thorium]] || || 5<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1968<ref name=EuroNuclear/> (shutdown) |- | {{flag|India}} || [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre|Trombay]] || Military || PUREX<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/kalpakkam.htm |title=CIRUS and DHRUVA Reactors, Trombay |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=30 July 2008 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126060010/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/kalpakkam.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> || 60<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1965<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|India}} || Tarapur || PHWR || PUREX || 100<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1982<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|India}} || [[Kalpakkam]] || PHWR and FBTR || PUREX || 100<ref name=GlobalSecurityKARP>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/kalpakkam.htm |title=Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocessing Plant [KARP] |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=30 July 2008 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126060010/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/india/kalpakkam.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> || style="background:#3a3;"|1998<ref name=GlobalSecurityKARP/> |- | {{flag|India}} || Tarapur || PHWR || || 100<ref name="BusStd">[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pm-to-dedicate-tarapur-nuke-reprocessing-unit-next-week/420362/ PM to dedicate Tarapur nuke reprocessing unit next week] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009221549/http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/pm-to-dedicate-tarapur-nuke-reprocessing-unit-next-week/420362/ |date=9 October 2012 }}. Business-standard.com. Retrieved 10 December 2011.</ref> || style="background:#3a3;"| 2011<ref name="BusStd"/> |- | {{flag|Israel}} || [[Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center|Dimona]] || Military || || 60–100<ref name=GFMR2010/> || style="background:#3a3;"| ~1960–present |- | {{flag|Japan}} || [[Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant#Reprocessing plant|Tokai]] || LWR<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/japan/tokai.htm |title=Tokai Reprocessing Plant (TRP) |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=30 July 2008 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923191606/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/japan/tokai.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> || || 210<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1977<ref name=EuroNuclear/>-2006<ref name=kramer2012 >{{Cite journal | last1 = Kramer | first1 = D. | title = Is Japan ready to forgo nuclear reprocessing? | doi = 10.1063/PT.3.1469 | journal = Physics Today | volume = 65 | issue = 3 | pages = 25–42 | year = 2012 |bibcode = 2012PhT....65c..25K }}</ref> |- | {{flag|Japan}} || [[Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant|Rokkasho]] || LWR<ref name=Princeton/> || || 800<ref name=EuroNuclear/><ref name=wnalist13/> || style="background:#e21;"| under construction (2024)<ref name=wnn-20171228>{{cite news |url=http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Further-delay-to-completion-of-Rokkasho-facilities-2812174.html |title=Further delay to completion of Rokkasho facilities |publisher=World Nuclear News |date=28 December 2017 |access-date=28 December 2017 |archive-date=29 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229112855/http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Further-delay-to-completion-of-Rokkasho-facilities-2812174.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|Pakistan}} || [[Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor#PARR-III Reactor (New-Labs)|New Labs]], [[Rawalpindi]] || Military/[[Nuclear fuel cycle#Plutonium cycle|Plutonium]]/[[Thorium fuel cycle|Thorium]] || || 80<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/nuke/guide/pakistan/facility/rawalpindi.htm |title=Rawalpindi / Nilhore |publisher=[[Federation of American Scientists]] |access-date= |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061905/https://fas.org/nuke/guide/pakistan/facility/rawalpindi.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>|| style="background:#3a3;"| 1982–present |- |{{flag|Pakistan}} || [[Khushab Nuclear Complex]], [[Atomic City of Pakistan]]||[[Heavy water reactor|HWR]]/Military/[[Tritium]] || || 22 kg<ref>{{cite news |title=Pakistan's Indigenous Nuclear Reactor Starts Up| work=The Nation|date= 13 April 1998 }}</ref>|| style="background:#3a3;"| 1986–present |- | {{flag|Russia}} || [[Mayak]] Plant B || Military || || 400 || style="background:#e21;"| 1948-196?<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/chelyabinsk-65_nuc.htm |title=Chelyabinsk-65 |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=29 July 2008 |archive-date=3 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903191113/http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/chelyabinsk-65_nuc.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|Russia}} || [[Mayak]] Plant BB, RT-1 || LWR<ref name=Princeton/> || PUREX + Np separation<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.usembassy.it/file2001_12/alia/a1121910.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728001906/http://www.usembassy.it/file2001_12/alia/a1121910.htm |archive-date=28 July 2014 |title=Modernization and Enhancement of NMAC at the Mayak RT-1 Plant |publisher=INMM |author=S. Guardini|date=16 June 2003 |access-date=9 August 2008|display-authors=etal}}</ref> || 400<ref name=EuroNuclear/><ref name=wnalist13/> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1978<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- | {{flag|Russia}} || [[Tomsk-7]] Radiochemical Plant || Military || || 6000<ref name=GFMR2010>{{cite web|title=Global Fissile Material Report 2010|publisher=[[International Panel on Fissile Materials]]|url=http://fissilematerials.org/library/gfmr10.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424023733/http://fissilematerials.org/library/gfmr10.pdf |archive-date=2020-04-24}}</ref> || style="background:#3a3;"| 1956<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/tomsk-7_nuc.htm |title=Tomsk-7 / Seversk |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=1 June 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729033421/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/tomsk-7_nuc.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|Russia}} || [[Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai|Zheleznogorsk]] (Krasnoyarsk-26) || Military || || 3500<ref name=GFMR2010/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1964–~2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/krasnoyarsk-26_nuc.htm |title=Krasnoyarsk-26 / Zheleznogorsk |publisher=[[Global Security]] |access-date=1 June 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731200132/https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/krasnoyarsk-26_nuc.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|Russia}} || [[Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai|Zheleznogorsk]], RT-2 || [[VVER]] || || 800<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| under construction (2030) |- | {{flag|USA}}, [[Washington (state)|WA]] || [[Hanford Site]] || Military || bismuth phosphate, REDOX, PUREX || || style="background:#e21;"| 1944–1988<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/TPlant | title=T Plant overview | publisher=Department of energy | access-date=9 April 2011 | archive-date=18 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318075818/https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/TPlant | url-status=live }}</ref> |- | {{flag|USA}}, [[South Carolina|SC]] || [[Savannah River Site]] || Military/LWR/HWR/Tritium ||PUREX, REDOX, THOREX, Np separation || 5000<ref name=Fernandez>{{cite web | url=http://www.c-n-t-a.com/srs50_files/133fernandez.pdf | author=LeVerne Fernandez | title=Savannah River Site Canyons—Nimble Behemoths of the Atomic Age (WSRC-MS-2000-00061) | access-date=9 April 2011 | archive-date=3 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190956/http://www.c-n-t-a.com/srs50_files/133fernandez.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> || style="background:#e21;"| 1952–2002 |- | {{flag|USA}}, [[New York State|NY]] || [[West Valley Reprocessing Plant|West Valley]] || LWR<ref name=Princeton/> || PUREX || 300<ref name=EuroNuclear/> || style="background:#e21;"| 1966–1972<ref name=EuroNuclear/> |- |{{flag|USA}}, [[South Carolina|SC]] || [[Barnwell, South Carolina|Barnwell]] || LWR || PUREX || 1500<ref name=BFNP1995>{{cite report |title=Plutonium Consumption Program, CANDU Reactor Project: Feasibility of BNFP Site as MOX Fuel Supply Facility. Final report |date=30 June 1995 |doi=10.2172/82369 |page=3-1}}</ref> || Never permitted to operate<ref>{{Citation|title=West Valley Demonstration Project|date=1 December 2018|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Valley_Demonstration_Project&oldid=871534289|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=13 April 2020|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125095652/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Valley_Demonstration_Project&oldid=871534289|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|Construction completed in 1976<ref name=BFNP1995/>}} |- |{{flag|USA}}, [[New York State|ID]] |[[Idaho National Laboratory|INL]] |LWR |PUREX | – | |}
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