Is China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) a Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC)?

Nuclear Components · Beijing, China

Company record last verified · federal list index as of

FEOC answer

Yes

Yes. China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is named on the DOD Section 1260H list -- a federal restricted-party designation that makes it a foreign entity of concern for IRA clean-energy tax credit purposes.

  • Named on the DOD Section 1260H list as "China National Nuclear Corporation", added 2026-06-10 -- identified as a Chinese military company operating in the United States. Source: 2026-06-10 Federal Register (Doc. 2026-11571).
  • Covered by the BIS Entity List (2024) via subsidiaries, not by a designation of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) itself.
  • Organized in China, a covered nation under the FEOC rules (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea).
  • Not screened in this record: UFLPA Entity List. No conclusion either way is drawn from that list.

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Federal list screening for China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC)

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) carries a result for 3 of the 4federal restricted-party lists below. "No screening record" means neither source covers that list; it is not a finding that the company is absent from it, and no claim on this page counts it as a clean result.

Results come from two places: the curated company record, and the live federal list index re-ingested from the agencies. Where they disagree the index wins and the row says so. The index can only add a designation, never clear one -- no confident match in the index is not evidence that a company is absent from a list.

Federal restricted-party list screening results
Federal listResultCheckedSource
DOD Section 1260H
U.S. Department of Defense
Listed
Listed as "China National Nuclear Corporation"2026-06-10 Federal Register (Doc. 2026-11571)
2026-06-10Official list
BIS Entity List
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security
Listed
subsidiaries
2024Official list
OFAC SDN List
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control
Not listed2026Official list
UFLPA Entity List
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (FLETF)
No screening record
Not screened in this record
-Official list

Ownership and country of organization

Country
China
Headquarters
Beijing, China
Ultimate owner
Chinese State Council (100% state-owned)
Ownership type
State-owned (Chinese)
Covered nation
Yes -- China
U.S. manufacturing
No US manufacturing.
Products
Hualong One nuclear reactor, Nuclear fuel, Uranium enrichment, Nuclear engineering

Summary

Chinese state-owned nuclear corporation. Listed on DOD Section 1260H. Subject to FEOC restrictions.

Major Chinese state-owned nuclear company. On DOD 1260H list. Key entity in China's nuclear weapons and power programs.

A FEOC determination is entity-level. Whether a specific project or component qualifies for the 45Y, 48E and 45X credits also depends on material-assistance cost ratios and the applicable begin-construction or sale date under IRS Notice 2026-15 (Feb 12, 2026), which this page does not evaluate.

How this answer is determined

The prohibited-foreign-entity restrictions on the 45Y, 48E and 45X clean energy credits were added by OBBBA (P.L. 119-21), enacted July 4, 2025 and are administered under IRS Notice 2026-15 (Feb 12, 2026). A company answers "yes" on this page when it is named on a federal restricted-party list, or when it is organized in a covered nation (China, Russia, Iran or North Korea). Where ownership or component sourcing leaves the question genuinely open, the answer is "uncertain" rather than a clean result -- and that holds even for a company organized in a covered nation, because a record flagged for component-level analysis is answering a narrower question than the entity-level test.

A separate ownership and control test can make a company prohibited even with a clean list screen: a specified foreign entity can appoint a covered officer (board member, president, CEO or CFO); a single specified foreign entity owns 25 percent or more; specified foreign entities together own 40 percent or more; specified foreign entities together hold 15 percent or more of the entity's debt. Those tests need the cap table and debt structure and are not evaluated here.

Sources for this record

  • DOD Section 1260H List
  • BIS Entity List
  • Company disclosures

Where China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) sources its components

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China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) supply chain map

Suppliers in Nuclear Components with no federal designation

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