These processes, including the associated cooling ponds, require considerable amounts of water and the licence to extract water from Wast Water, formerly held by BNFL, is now held by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Prior to the reopening of Kingmoor depot in 2000, DRS used facilities on-site at Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria from 1995, owned by parent company BNFL, however these are now no longer used.

Following privatisation of the electricity supply industry and the later part-privatisation of the nuclear power generating industry they are now owned by two different companies: station A by Sellafield Ltd, part of the government-owned BNFL and station B by EDF through British subsidiary EDF Energy.

Sellafield was previously owned and operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) and then, following the division of UKAEA in 1971, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd ( BNFL ).

* 2000: the ABB Group's nuclear power business, was purchased by BNFL and merged into Westinghouse.

The Westinghouse Electric Company was also sold by BNFL to an investment group led by Toshiba.

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin repealed a law which had banned the import of used nuclear fuel, which makes it possible for Russians to offer a reprocessing service for clients outside Russia ( similar to that offered by BNFL. PUREX chemistry The current method of choice is to use the PUREX liquid-liquid extraction process which uses a tributyl phosphate hydrocarbon mixture to extract both uranium and plutonium from nitric acid.

This bypass was built in the early 90s as a result of an investment by BNFL in local infrastructure following the siting of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

British Nuclear Fuels Limited ( BNFL ) was a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government.

On 22 August 2006 BNFL announced that instead of selling BNG as a going concern it would instead sell it off piece by piece.

The NDA ( Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ) has taken over the licence once held by BNFL ( British Nuclear Fuels plc ) which allows them to extract a maximum of 18, 184. 4 m³ a day ( over 4 million gallons ) and 6, 637, 306 m³ a year from Wast Water to use on site for various processes including the cooling ponds and reprocessing ( electricity production has ceased ).

It was initially owned and operated by the Production Group of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) until the creation of British Nuclear Fuels Limited ( BNFL ) in 1971 by an act of Parliament.

The site then operated in conjunction with Calder Hall under the banner of BNFL ’ s Electricity Generation Business ( EGB ) until rebranding, relicensing and restructuring of the various nuclear businesses operated by HM Government under the umbrella legal entity of BNFL took place in April 2005.

Several significant events in 2001 persuaded BNFL to upgrade the fuel routes of both Calder Hall and Chapelcross to near modern standards at a cost of tens of millions of pounds to guarantee that a License Instrument would be granted by the NII to permission final defuelling: the engineering work is being carried out by BNS Nuclear Services ( Formally Alstec ).

This facility was managed by BNFL on behalf of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ).

On its creation, the NDA also took over ownership of Direct Rail Services, the rail freight operating company set up by BNFL in 1995 to transport nuclear materials.

It is used by very few passengers ( as low as 1, 858 in 2004 – 05 ), but provides a commuter service for the workers at the nearby Springfields BNFL complex.

The spent uranium and the uranium left when operation was discontinued were transported to BNFL in Sellafield for nuclear reprocessing.

One train per day operates to specifically for transportation of workers at Sellafield nuclear plant ( BNFL ).

Sellafield Ltd was formed out of the remains of British Nuclear Group ( BNG ), a subsidiary of BNFL.

-featuring John Clarke, Head of Safety, BNFL Sellafield

The former Marchon Chemical Company at Whitehaven, and UKAEA / BNFL at Sellafield both soaked up village labour released by the declining heavy iron and mining industries, and brought a large influx of the technical and scientific university-educated middle class into the village ; rather like the first arrival of the professional classes a century earlier.

Following the breakup of the UKAEA into a research division ( UKAEA ) and a production division, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd ( BNFL ) in 1971, the major part of the site was transferred to BNFL.

In 1971, the production activities of UKAEA were transferred to the newly-created British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. ( BNFL ).

In 1999 Hunting-BRAE lost the contract to AWE Management Ltd ( AWE ML ), a consortium of BNFL, Lockheed Martin and Serco.

In December 2008, the BNFL share in AWE Management Ltd was sold to Jacobs Engineering Group, an American engineering services company.

In January 2007 BNFL announced that it would sell BNG's Magnox reactor sites operating business, Reactor Sites Management Company Ltd.

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd ( BNFL ) took over nuclear fuel and weapons material producing activities: the manufacturing plant at Springfields, the enrichment plant at Capenhurst, the spent-fuel facility at Windscale, and the dual-purpose Calder Hall and Chapelcross military plutonium producing reactors.

Sir Hugh Robert Collum ( 29 June 1940 – 29 August 2005 ) was a British businessman, best known for his time as chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd ( BNFL ).

BNG was created from a reorganisation of BNFL in 2005, bringing together all of BNFL's businesses into one unit, with the exception of Nexia Solutions and Westinghouse Electric Company.

* 1998 – sells remaining manufacturing asset, its nuclear energy business, to BNFL which sold it to Toshiba in 2006 which still operates it as Westinghouse Electric Company today

On 1 April 2005, BNFL formed a new holding company, and started a rigorous restructuring process which would transfer or sell most of its entire domain, divisions.

Schlesinger is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The MITRE Corporation ; on the advisory board of The National Interest ; a Director of BNFL, Inc., Peabody Energy, Sandia Corporation, Seven Seas Petroleum Company, Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Nixon Center.

The NII initiated an investigation because dropping irradiated fuel elements is a serious issue even when, as in this event, BNFL had advised NII that there had been no release of radiological activity.

* 1999: CBS Corporation sold its nuclear business to British Nuclear Fuels Limited ( BNFL ).

The sale surprised many industry experts who questioned the wisdom of BNFL selling one of the world's largest producers of nuclear reactors shortly before the market for nuclear power was expected to grow substantially ; China, the United States and the United Kingdom were all expected to invest heavily in nuclear power.

BNFL suffered embarrassing revelations of falsified quality checks in nuclear fuels and Lockheed was the subject of scathing reports on the operation of U. S. nuclear facilities.

After selling off its nuclear assets to BNFL in 1999, CBS Corporation was merged into Viacom a year later, thus shutting down the Original Westinghouse for good.

The assets of Magnox Electric were later combined with BNFL.

He was a junior minister DTI under Major with responsibility for small business, alternative energy, biotechnology, coal, oil and BNFL.

However, on 14 October 2010, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude announced that BNFL would be abolished along with a number of other government organisations.