Contents

■Executive Summary

  Major Developments in China’s Uranium Enrichment Capacity 

  China’s Rapidly Expanding Indigenous Centrifuge Enrichment Capacity 

  Meeting China’s Commercial Demand for Enriched Uranium

■Introduction 

I: Major Developments in China’s Uranium Enrichment Capacity 

  The Military Origins of Chinese Enrichment

  The Emergence of Civilian Enrichment in China

  The Indigenization of Chinese Centrifuges

  Recent Developments

II: Lanzhou Uranium Enrichment Plant 

III: Hanzhong Uranium Enrichment Plant

IV: Uranium Enrichment Facilities of Plant 814 

V: Can China’s Enrichment Capacity Meet Commercial SWU Demand? 

VI: Conclusions