From 2008–2016, it was operated under licence from the NDA by a third party Parent Body Organisation called Nuclear Management Partners (NMP).
Since the termination of the NMP contract it has been brought back under direct governmental control by making it a subsidiary of the NDA.
The company employs more than 13,000 workers and its focus is to deliver accelerated nuclear decommissioning and clean-up programmes.
[3] The remaining business of BNG was made responsible for the decommissioning work at Sellafield.
This was renamed Sellafield Ltd and ownership was passed to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).