| 1957 |
- Davison Chemical Company begins construction at
Erwin, TN site
- HEU and thorium fuel rod fabrication contract awarded
for physics-critical test at Indian Point No. 1 Reactor, NY
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| 1957-63 |
- Produced various uranium and thorium metals, alloys
and compounds
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| 1964 |
- Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. formed by W.R. Grace &
Company and American Machine & Foundry Company
- Erwin, TN - reactor materials and Naval Reactors fuel pilot
plant constructed along with Port Hope, Canada fuel fabrication
facility
West Valley, NY - option to lease 3,000 acres
- Naval Reactors fuel pilot plant constructed and operated
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| 1965 |
- Naval Reactors fuel production plant constructed
- West Valley, NY fuel processing plant completed
- UO2/PuO2 mixed oxide facility completed
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| 1968 |
- Light Water Breeder Reactor (LWBR) thorium and thoria and U-233
oxide program initiated
|
| 1969 |
- Getty Oil and Skelly Oil acquire NFS
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| 1984 |
- Texaco, Inc. acquires NFS as part of its buyout of Getty Oil
|
| 1987 |
- NFS Services, Ltd., a private, Atlanta-based limited partnership
purchases NFS, Inc. from Texaco
|
| 1987-Present |
- NFS becomes member of Fluor Daniel team to clean up
DOE's Fernald, OH site
- NFS decommissions NFS Pu gloveboxes and is awarded
similar work at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory
- NFS expands field operations to construct and operate a uranium
facility at nuclear fuel production facility to recover uranium
from their calcium fluoride waste stream.
|
| 1995 |
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| 1996 |
- NFS is awarded a new Naval Fuels
production contract.
- NFS remediates university radioactive
medical waste burial grounds at Duke and Emory Universities
|
| 1997 |
- NFS receives contract for processing U/Al alloy materials
from DOE - Oak Ridge, TN
- NFS receives contract for processing UF6 cylinder heels from
Lockheed Martin Environmental Services
- NFS receives RCRA Part B permit for treatment of mercury mixed
waste from other facilities
- NFS provides Type B shipping services for entire TRU
material inventory at Pantex, TX.
- NFS Decontamination & Volume Reduction Facility (DVRS)
is selected by DOE's ASTD Program
- NFS proposes to DOE system-wide implementation of
NFS mercury treatment technology.
- NFS/Framatome/Siemens consortium selected by TVA for test of
conversion of DOE HEU into LEU fuel for TVA
reactors
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| 1998 |
- NFS receives contract for dewatering one million cubic feet
of calcium fluoride sludges by Fortune 5 customer
- NFS DVRS contract for design and deployment at Los
Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is received. DVRS to
be deployed across the DOE Complex
- Studsvik Processing Facility opens on NFS property in
Erwin, TN
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| 2000 |
- New rail siding installed and warehouse facility opens
to temporarily store waste and other materials from
customers undergoing treatability research and analysis
- DOE awards team of NFS Duke/COGEMA/Stone & Webster team
contract for design, construction and operation of Pu MOX fuel
facility at Savannah River site
- Test assemblies pass TVA review from fuel produced by
NFS from converted HEU
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