An independent atlas of the world's conversion bottleneck.

fuel.jrand.net is compiled, maintained, and edited by one person, with the audit log open to anyone who wants to verify the numbers.

What this is

The site began as a one-page atlas of every commercial UF₆ conversion plant on the planet. Today it has grown to cover the full nuclear fuel cycle, with a scenario simulator that lets analysts edit any facility's capacity, status, or online date and watch Western capacity vs demand recompute live. Conversion is the platform's specialty because it is the narrowest pipe in the cycle — five plants, four Western, one in Russia, with a hard regulatory deadline in January 2028.

Every facility number is sourced from operator filings, WNA, IAEA, NEI Magazine, or OECD-NEA. The full audit trail lives at /methodology. Where a figure is contested or its source is older than five years, the side panel and the methodology page flag it explicitly.

Who runs it

Compiled by Jace Arnold. Updated quarterly. The platform is a sister site of ENTEL, the weekly nuclear newsletter, and ships under the same publishing entity.

Sponsorship

If you run investor relations or corporate communications at a nuclear-listed company and want to back independent coverage of the fuel cycle, get in touch. Sponsor placements are limited to one per quarter, named on the home page and methodology page, with no editorial influence over the data or the analysis. The audit log stays the audit log.

Contact: jace@jrand.com

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Open data

The underlying facility data, capacity records, and gap-history series are public and live at /methodology. Anyone can rebuild the model in Excel from the operator filings cited there. The scenario simulator is a UI on top; the data is the contract.