Pilot Plant for Spent Fuel Reprocessing 

In 1990, the State Council approved the construction of a pilot plant for reprocessing spent fuel at CNNC's 404 Company Limited. The plant was hot commissioned 20 years later in December 2010, signaling China's mastery of the technology for reprocessing spent fuel from power reactors in a closed nuclear fuel cycle. Since its hot commissioning, the plant has served as an important research platform for further development of advanced fuel reprocessing technology. In 2017, construction of China's self-designed spent fuel reprocessing demonstration project, based on a 60-ton pilot plant, began and is expected to be completed by 2023. 

乏燃料后處理中間試驗廠 

1990年，國務院批準在中核四〇四有限公司建設動力堆乏燃料后處理中間試驗工廠。經過20年的努力，2010年12月，中試廠熱調試取得圓滿成功，標志著中國掌握了動力堆乏燃料后處理的核心技術，實現了核燃料閉式循環的目標，為中國先進后處理工程技術的開發提供了重要的研究實驗平臺。2017年，以60噸生產規模的中試廠為基礎，中國自主設計的乏燃料后處理示范工程開工建設，預計于2023年建成。