BNFL
BNFL, British Nuclear Fuels Limited, is an international company, owned by the British government, concerned with nuclear power.It manufactures and transports fuel (notably Mox), runs reactors, generates and sells electricity, reprocesses and manages spent fuel (mainly at Sellafield), and decommissions nuclear plants and other similar facilities.
In the United Kingdom the company owns the eight remaining Magnox nuclear power stations, the other plants were seperated and privatised as British Energy in 1996. It owns nuclear-related sites in the US and also Sweden. The company claims a 12% share of the world's nuclear power generation.
Due to its ownership of aging plants and the subsequent liability from decommissioning the company's financial situation is precarious, it reported a loss of ÃÂã2.3 billion in 2002. It is technically bankrupt, the projected costs exceed ÃÂã48 billion while the fund to cover these costs, the Nuclear Liabilities Investment Portfolio, contains less than ÃÂã4 billion.
It also owns the freight operating company Direct Rail Services.