18 Facts About BNFL

BNFL's headquarters were then moved to Daresbury Park industrial estate, near Warrington.

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.

Later, BNFL sold the separate companies that made up its major subsidiary, British Nuclear Group, leaving a decommissioning and reprocessing organisation which became Sellafield Ltd.

BNFL continued to exist only as a legal entity to meet all pension liabilities and any obligations arising from disposal programmes.

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

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In 1984, BNFL became a public limited company as British Nuclear Fuels plc, wholly owned by the UK government.

US subsidiary BNFL, Inc was established in 1990 and specialised in decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear sites.

In 1999, it was discovered that BNFL staff had been falsifying some MOX fuel quality assurance data since 1996.

In 1999, BNFL acquired Westinghouse Electric Company, the commercial nuclear power businesses of CBS, for $1.

In January 2003, the research and development arm of BNFL was relaunched as Nuclear Sciences and Technology Services .

BNFL became British Nuclear Group and a new holding company was established and adopted the British Nuclear Fuels name.

BNFL became one of a number of decommissioning contractors through BNG.

On 19 April 2005, BNFL, Inc was renamed BNG America and made a subsidiary of BNG.

In July 2005, BNFL confirmed it planned to sell Westinghouse, then estimated to be worth $1.

On 3 February 2006, BNFL announced it had agreed to sell BNG America to Envirocare to form EnergySolutions.

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

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

Current graphic identity, including the BNFL logotype, was created in 1996 by Lloyd Northover, the British design consultancy founded by John Lloyd and Jim Northover.