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Locations of Fuel Cycle Facilities

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates all of the major, commercial fuel cycle facilities in the Nation. That includes facilities located or licensed in Idaho, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. The following map depicts the locations of these sites, while the table below the map identifies each facility by licensee, location, type, and docket number.

Fuel Cycle Facilities

Image used as a pin on the map to represent a Depleted Uranium Deconversion FacilityDepleted Uranium Deconversion FacilityImage used as a pin on the map to represent a Uranium Enrichment Gas Centrifuge FacilityUranium Enrichment – Gas Centrifuge Facility
Image used as a pin on the map to represent a Uranium Fuel Fabrication FacilityFuel Fabrication FacilityImage used as a pin on the map to represent a Uranium Enrichment – Laser Separation FacilityUranium Enrichment – Laser Separation Facility
Uranium Hexafluoride Production (Conversion) FacilityUranium Conversion Facility
Region II oversees all commercial nuclear fuel facilities in the United States of America. This includes fuel facilities in Illinois and Ohio which would normally be located in Region III, as well as New Mexico and Washington (Region IV).
Licensee/Facility [Docket]LocationReports
Uranium Conversion
Honeywell [40-3392 (04003392)]Metropolis, ILInspection Reports Event Reports
Uranium Enrichment – Gas Centrifuge
Louisiana Energy Services (LES) [70-3103 (07003103)]Eunice, NMInspection Reports Event Reports
American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) [70-7004 (07007004)]Piketon, OHInspection Reports Event Reports
Orano Enrichment USA [70-7038 (07007038)]Oak Ridge, TNInspection Reports Event Reports
Uranium Enrichment – Laser Separation
Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) [70-7016 (07007016)]Wilmington, NCInspection Reports Event Reports

Fuel Fabrication – Category I
BWXT [70-27 (07000027)]Lynchburg, VAInspection Reports Event Reports
NFS [70-143 (07000143)]Erwin, TNInspection Reports Event Reports
Fuel Fabrication – Category II
TRISO-X [70-7027 (07007027)]Oak Ridge, TNInspection Reports Event Reports
Fuel Fabrication – Category III
Framatome [70-1257 (07001257)]Richland, WAInspection Reports Event Reports
GNF-A [70-1113 (07001113)]Wilmington, NCInspection Reports Event Reports
Westinghouse [70-1151 (07001151)]Columbia, SCInspection Reports Event Reports
Depleted Uranium Deconversion
International Isotopes [40-9086 (04009086)]Lea County, NMInspection Reports Event Reports

*The docket number format in parentheses can be used in the Advanced Search function of Web-based ADAMS.