AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co
1955 Four industrial groups formed to exploit the information being made available by UKAEA on design of nuclear power "furnaces" - one was Industrial Atomic Energy Group involving AEI and John Thompson with electrical generating expertise from Metropolitan-Vickers and BTH. [1].
1956 John Thompson Nuclear Energy Company received an order for one of 3 nuclear power stations ordered by the Central Electricity Authority [2].
1960 Nuclear Power Group was formed as partnership between Nuclear Power Plant Co Limited and the AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Company Limited.
1961 As part of the consolidation then taking place in the nuclear equipment industry, Nuclear Graphite became a wholly-owned subsidiary of AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co[3]