
1957
NFS was established and strategically located between the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN., and the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.

1958
NFS produced thorium rods for America’s first commercial reactor.

1965
The Naval fuels production plant was constructed at the site.

1968
NFS produced fuel for America’s first light water breeder reactor.

1968
NFS delivered fuel for the U.S. Navy’s USS Nimitz aircraft carrier.

1969–1971
NFS manufactured mixed oxide fuel for the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR).

1983
NFS Research and Development center validated a new naval fuel process.

1991
NFS was the first U.S. company to reach agreement with Russian Federation for high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) downblending.

1992
NFS partnered with Fluor for America’s largest Department of Energy (DOE) clean up at Fernald, OH.

1996
NFS constructed the Advanced Naval Fuel Manufacturing Facility.

1998
NFS used a process it designed and patented to downblend HEU to LEU.

2001
NFS successfully competed for a contract to downblend DOE-supplied HEU to LEU for use in Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) commercial power reactors.

2004
NFS delivered the first downblended HEU from the Blended Low Enriched Uranium (BLEU) Project to TVA.

2005
BLEU Project won Global Energy Award.

2006
NFS is a member of the winning teams at DOE facilities - Paducah and Nevada Test Site.

2008
BWXT, formerly known as Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), finalized the purchase of NFS from NFS Holdings, LLC.

2009
NFS partnered with Westinghouse and was awarded a 12 metric tons downblending contract.

2014
NFS awarded two new contracts for fuel and materials services totaling up to approximately $302 million from the DOE, Naval Reactors Laboratory Field Office.

2016
NFS was awarded a contract valued at $241.5 million for the downblending of 10.4 metric tons of surplus HEU.

2017
NFS received contract totaling approximately $141.7 million for fuel manufacture, development activities, and decommissioning work in support of the nation’s nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.

2017
NFS celebrated 60 years of service.

2017
NFS achieves 5 million work hours without a lost time injury.

2017
NFS pledges $100,000 in support of new Engineering program at Milligan College.