History
2007 | Sales of NUKEM group subsidiaries: NUKEM Ltd. to Freyssinet SAS, a 100% subsidiary of VINCI Construction, NUKEM Corp. to EnergySolutions (US), NIS Ingenieure and Assistance Nucleaire S.A. (ANSA) to Siempelkamp (Germany). | |
2006 |
| Advent International acquires NUKEM from RWE |
2004 | Under a joint contract, TENEX and RWE NUKEM supplied the first batch of low-enriched uranium (LEU) for the Mexican Laguna Verde NPP. | |
2001 | UK's NUKEM Nuclear Ltd., a subsidiary of NUKEM Nuklear in Germany, purchased the assets and business of AEA Technology's nuclear engineering activity. Thus, NUKEM strengthened its worldwide market position in the nuclear services business field. | |
1999 | NUKEM, Cameco and COGEMA signed a commercial agreement with Techsnabexport (TENEX), for the purchase of natural uranium derived from Russian HEU (HEU Feed Agreement) | |
1992 | Long-term uranium supply contracts concluded with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, including purchase of existing stocks. | |
1982 | Foundation of two US subsidiaries: NUKEM, Inc., dealing with nuclear fuel services in the US WasteChem, dealing with design, engineering and delivery of radioactive waste treatment facilities | |
1974 | Foundation of NUKEM-Luxemburg (NULUX), initially a 100% NUKEM subsidiary (later with a share of Rio Tinto and Dresdner Bank) Foundation of NVD, the nuclear insurance service (NUKEM share: 50%) | |
1973 | Bulk purchase of enrichment services from TENEX for RWE (value: DM 120 Mill) | |
1972 | MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant at Hanau entered production with a nominal capacity of 25 t HM per year; the plant was an important part of the German plutonium industry and was run by ALKEM (40% NUKEM; 60% Siemens) until 1988 Foundation of HOBEG, a 100% NUKEM subsidiary, for the production of high-temperature reactor fuel elements NUKEM set up departments for process technology and plant engineering | |
1969 | Foundation of the NIS-Nuclear-Ingenieur-Service GmbH: Build-up of know-how and expertise in reactor physics | |
1969 |
| Foundation of the Reactor Fuel Element Company (RBG - Reaktor-Brennelemente Gesellschaft, 1974 renamed into Reaktor-Brennelement Union (RBU)), headquartered in Hanau Shareholders: Siemens (60.0%) |
1966 | NUKEM enters the reprocessing business and acquires one share in the Belgium Eurochemic Shareholders: NUKEM (80.0%) | |
1964 | Foundation of ALKEM (Siemens (60%); NUKEM (40%)): Research and development of the MOX processing technology and erection of a MOX fuel production pilot NUKEM produced first fuel with coated particles for high-temperature reactors NUKEM established department for reactor physics NUKEM organised and carried out first nuclear transports | |
1960 | Foundation of NUKEM (Nuklear-Chemie und -Metallurgie GmbH) as one of the first companies in the nuclear industry in Germany, 150 employees, DM 4 Mill (Euro 2 Mill) equity capital. |