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China is said to be building a demonstration commercial reprocessing plant

| Sep. 25, 2015

"China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is reported to have started preparations for what appears to be a demonstration reprocessing plant with a capacity of 200 tonnes/year at Jinta near Jiuquan city of Gansu province. This site is over one hundred kilometer away from China's pilot reprocessing plant (located at Plant 404, the former Jiuquan plutonium production complex), The new demonstration plant is assumed to be based on a scale-up of the pilot plant which has a capacity of 50 tons/year. Works seems to be at a very preliminary site preparation stage..."

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For Academic Citation: Zhang, Hui.“China is said to be building a demonstration commercial reprocessing plant.” International Panel on Fissile Materials, September 25, 2015.

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