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British Nuclear Fuels is to sell Project Services, the Warrington-based nuclear services company with about 700 staff, to VT Group for up to £75m. 19-Dec-2007 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell off its trading and marketing division, having appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers to oversee the sale. 04-Oct-2006 British Nuclear Fuels has sold BNG America, its US-based nuclear decommissioning business, to EnergySolutions for about £50m. 06-Feb-2006 British Nuclear Fuels has agreed to sell its Westinghouse nuclear power plants business in the US to Toshiba of Japan for £2.8bn. 23-Jan-2006 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell its BNG nuclear clean-up operations for at least £150m. 03-Oct-2005 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to sell its Westinghouse nuclear power plant construction business in the US, having been approached by 15 interested companies. 04-Jul-2005 Amec is to acquire NNC Holdings, the nuclear services group with about 1,000 staff, from British Nuclear Fuels and 3i for £25m. 22-Jun-2005 British Nuclear Group is to shed about 500 jobs at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria over the next two years. 03-Jun-2005 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed 20 jobs at Sellafied over the next 18 months, in order to consolidate its 14 stores into two. 14-Feb-2005 British Nuclear Fuels and Scottish BioPower are discussing plans to transform the former Chapelcross nuclear power plant in Dumfries & Galloway into a wood-burning electricity plant, and similar projects could follow at six other sites. 09-Aug-2004 British Nuclear Fuels has indicated that up to 350 construction jobs could be created if approval is given for a new £100m waste store at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. 09-Jul-2004 British Nuclear Fuels has closed the Chapelcross nuclear power plant in Dumfries nine months earlier than planned, but none of the 450 staff will lose their jobs until next year. 30-Jun-2004 British Nuclear Fuels has awarded a £3.5m contract to Kier to build a waste export facility at Sellafield nuclear power station. 19-Feb-2004 AEA Technology has sold its Nuclear Science operation, which employs 153 people at Windscale and 15 at Harwell, to British Nuclear Fuels for £9.7m. 03-Dec-2003 British Nuclear Fuels in discussing plans to transfer the engineering department at the Sellafield nuclear site to United Utilities, which could lead to the loss of 20 jobs. 01-Sep-2003 British Nuclear Fuels is planning to relocate up to 350 staff from Sellafield to a multi-million pound purpose-built office block in Whitehaven, and plans have been submitted to Copeland Borough Council. 25-Apr-2003 British Nuclear Fuels has won a £230m contract to work on the development of four nuclear power plants in South Korea. 12-Aug-2002 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed 270 of the 300 jobs at its Capenhurst plant in Wirral over the next four years, due to the completion of decommissioning work. 28-Jun-2002 British Nuclear Fuels has brought forward the closing date for the Calder Hall nuclear reactor in Cumbria to March 2003 and the Chapelcross reactor in Scotland to March 2005, due to the fall in electricity prices. 24-Jun-2002 British Nuclear Fuels has won government approval to put its Mox fuel fabrication plant at Sellafield into full commercial operation, securing 300 jobs. 04-Oct-2001 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed about 60 jobs at its Magnox centre near Stroud over the next few years, in order to transfer some research work to Cumbria. 10-Sep-2001 British Nuclear Fuels has received clearance from the Health & Safety Executive to reopen the Wylfa nuclear power station in north Wales. 02-Aug-2001 British Nuclear Fuels is to hand over the running of the Sellafield Visitor Centre to the Science Museum in London in a £5.5m deal. 06-Apr-2001 British Nuclear Fuels is looking to play a major role in the liberalisation of the French nuclear market, which will involve the 58 nuclear power plants seeking tenders for all fuel assembly supplies. 07-Dec-2000 British Nuclear Fuels is planning to recruit about 200 electrical and mechanical apprentices at Sellafield over the next five years. 23-Oct-2000 British Nuclear Fuels has announced closure dates for its Magnox power stations, with five closing at the end of their licensed lifetimes and one closing early, while the company will apply for licence extensions at Oldbury and Wylfa. 24-May-2000 British Nuclear Fuels is to close a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant at Sellafied for a number of weeks, in order to make modifications required for the retention of its quality assurance accreditation. 22-Jan-2000 British Nuclear Fuels is acquiring the nuclear division of ABB of Sweden for £300m, and the business will be merged with the recently-acquired Westinghouse operation. 30-Dec-1999 British Nuclear Fuels is to stop production at its Magnox power station in Bradwell, Essex, in March 2002, with the loss of up to 350 jobs. 02-Dec-1999 AEA Technology is to merge its nuclear services operations with those of British Nuclear Fuels, to create a joint venture company with sales of about £150m a year. 28-Jul-1999 British Nuclear Fuels is to undergo a partial privatisation as the government has confirmed plans to raise about £1.5bn by selling a stake of up to 49%. 14-Jul-1999 British Nuclear Fuels has won government approval to start testing the use of reprocessed uranium at the £300m mixed oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield. 12-Jun-1999 The government is planning to sell a minority stake in British Nuclear Fuels in order to raise up to £1bn, but has ruled out a full privatisation at this stage. 17-May-1999 British Nuclear Fuels is planning to cut a further 500 jobs at its Sellafield plant over the next two years. 01-Apr-1999 British Nuclear Fuels may have to shed hundreds of jobs at its Sellafied nuclear reprocessing works, following the cancellation of German government contracts worth £1.2bn. 15-Jan-1999 British Nuclear Fuels has won approval from the industry regulator to continue using Scottish Power's power lines to transmit electricity to England, thereby securing the future of the Chapelcross nuclear plant on the Solway Firth. 31-Dec-1998 The government has appointed KPMG to assess the possibility of privatising British Nuclear Fuels Limited. 26-Sep-1998 British Nuclear Fuels has won the first stage of a potential £4.2bn contract from the US Department of Energy to clean up waste from atomic weapons production. 23-Jul-1998 British Nuclear Fuels and its US partner Morrison Knudsen have reached agreement to acquire the Westinghouse nuclear business in the US for £718m, despite UK government concern over the risks involved with taking on £900m of liabilities. 27-Jun-1998 A consortium that includes British Nuclear Fuels and Morrison Knudsen of the US is close to agreeing the acquisition of the Westinghouse nuclear business for up to $1.5bn. 18-Jun-1998 British Nuclear Fuels is linking up with Morrison Knudson of the US to bid for the nuclear division of Westinghouse, but is facing stiff competition from Framatome, Cosema, and Fluor Daniel. 01-Jun-1998 British Nuclear Fuels is said to be close to winning approval for a controversial scheme to convert plutonium into nuclear fuel at its Sellafied complex, following a report published by the Environment Agency which backs up the economic reasoning behind the scheme. 20-Jan-1998 BNFL, the fuel reprocessor, and Magnox Electric, the nuclear power station operator, have merged to complete the restructuring of the UK nuclear industry, and about 10% of their combined workforce of 16,000 could be lost. 23-Dec-1997 British Nuclear Fuels is in negotiations with Siemens about the creation of a joint venture for their nuclear fuels and engineering operations in order to offer a one-stop shop for the nuclear power industry. 16-Oct-1997 British Nuclear Fuels expects to agree terms on its merger with Magnox Electric this autumn, a move which has the support of the government. 11-Sep-1997 British Nuclear Fuels has won a £145m contract, as leader of a consortium, to decommission the US Energy Department's nuclear fuel enrichment plant at Oak Ridge. 29-Aug-1997 British Energy has agreed a £1.5bn deal with British Nuclear Fuels for the reprocessing and storage of about one third of the waste fuel from its reactors. 05-Jun-1997 British Nuclear Fuels is to build a £100m R&D centre at Sellafield, creating 200 jobs during construction. 30-Jan-1996 British Nuclear Fuels is to build a £360m nuclear waste treatment plant at Sellafield, creating 1,000 jobs in construction and 200 in operation. 20-Dec-1995 Darchem Engineering has won a contract worth over £1m to supply BNF with stainless steel fabrications for Sellafield. 23-Oct-1995 National Power and British Nuclear Fuels are soon to start their own bulk rail freight services, having previously used BR. 05-Oct-1995
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