Hanau

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Facility Data

Fuel Cycle Facilities

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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.
5 facilities: 5 decommissioned.
Facility Type Scale Design Capacity Operated Status Operator
Nukem Fuel Fabrication Plant Fuel Fabrication (Research Reactors) Commercial 100 t HM/year 1962–1988 Decommissioned RD Hanau GMBH
Siemens Fuel Fabrication Plant Hanau,Section MOX processing MOX fuel fabrication (Mox Powder, Pellet, Pin, FA) Commercial 35 t HM/year 1968–1991 Decommissioned
Siemens Fuel Fabrication Plant Hanau,Section MOX processing MOX fuel fabrication (Mox Powder, Pellet, Pin, FA) Commercial 35 t HM/year 1968–1991 Decommissioned
Siemens Fuel Fabrication Plant Hanau, Section Uranium Fuel Fabrication (U Pellet, Pin, FA) Commercial 1350 t HM/year 1969–1995 Decommissioned SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Hobeg Fuel Fabrication Plant Fuel Fabrication (U Pellet, Pin, FA) Commercial 4 t HM/year 1972–1988 Decommissioned HTR Brennelement GmbH (HOBEG mbH)
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.

Working Here

Per Diem Rates FY 2026

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Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$237
Lodging/Night
$140
M&IE/Day
$377
Total/Day
Germany: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.

Facility Map

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Interactive satellite map showing the facility's geographic location. Marker color indicates current status: green for online, red for offline, orange for reduced power. Click the header to open in Google Maps satellite view.

50.1242, 8.97239

Location & Contact

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Physical address, phone number, and website for this facility. Use the directions link to get driving directions via Google Maps.
Address:
Hanau, Hesse, Germany
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About This Site

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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: Evonik History: Wolfgang Industrial Park; Wikipedia: Hanau; Solarserver: Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz raeumt Plutoniumlager in Hanau; taz: Atom-Ei im rot-gruenen Nest.

Hanau is a group of nuclear fuel fabrication facilities in and around the city of Hanau in Hesse, Germany, with a major industrial site in the Wolfgang district.

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Degussa began nuclear work at Wolfgang after West Germany took up peaceful nuclear energy in 1955, and the company Nukem was set up in 1960. Fuel plants at Hanau made fuel for German reactors, including spherical fuel for the AVR and THTR-300 high-temperature reactors. Nukem ran a nuclear fuel plant at Wolfgang until 1988. A mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel plant stopped production after an accident in June 1991. A larger Siemens MOX plant was never used for production, and Siemens stopped making fuel rods at Hanau in 1995. The last unirradiated plutonium fuel was removed from storage at Hanau in 2005.