Fuel cycle plants at this site, as listed in the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database: what each plant does, its scale and design capacity, the years it operated, its current status and who operates it.
2 facilities: 2 in operation.
Facility
Type
Scale
Design Capacity
Operated
Status
Operator
Wilmington
Zirconium Alloy Tubing
Commercial
2200 km/year
1981–
In Operation
GENERAL ELECTRIC Co
Wilmington Facility
Fuel Fabrication (U Pellet, Pin, FA)
Commercial
1200 t HM/year
1982–
In Operation
GE Nuclear Energy
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.
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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Wilmington Business Journal: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; GE Vernova: Wilmington fact sheet; NRC: GNF-A Wilmington license correspondence (SNM-1097).
The Wilmington fuel fabrication plant of Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), a nuclear fuel venture involving General Electric, stands on Castle Hayne Road (N.C. Highway 133) about six miles north of the city of Wilmington, in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The site covers roughly 1,600 acres and was built to manufacture fuel for boiling water reactors.
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General Electric selected Wilmington in the 1960s after reviewing more than 100 communities. Ground was broken in 1967 and operations began in 1969, although a company fact sheet dates the site to 1968. The Global Nuclear Fuel joint venture was formed in 2001, and GE moved its nuclear headquarters from San Jose, California, to Wilmington in 2003.
