BNFL operate fifty one sites in sixteen countries around the world, employing nearly 23,000 people. Capabilities cover the whole range of nuclear fuel cycle from uranium procurement through to waste management and decommission. Springfields originally opened in 1946 covers an area of some 220 acres where fuel manufacture and processing of nuclear fuel for power stations takes place. Continuous Measured Term Contracts to Station plant and services for replacement and modernisation programme.