Nuclear Information Service

This section contains information about Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system; the development of a replacement system; military nuclear waste; nuclear materials transport; warhead transport and Nukewatch (UK), the citizen verification national transport monitoring network. NIS provides data analysis of these movements based on Nukewatch information You can use the navigation links to the right to find information about both types of military nuclear transports, and about the monitoring network Nukewatch (UK), that works to highlight such movements and to raise concerns with both the public and decision-makers about safety and security issues.

Flood map for AWE Burghfield. Shaded areas represent areas at significant risk of flooding, where the chance of flooding each year is greater than 1.3% (1 in 75).

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NEW NIS Submission to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY CONSULTATION

Global Security: Non-Proliferation

NIS argues that the risks posed by British nuclear weapons production and road transport of warheads threaten each individual citizen and our way of life. Additionally, the risk of a criticality event at the substandard warhead assembly/disassembly facilities at AWE Burghfield is also unacceptable and unjustifiable.

Read the NIS submission to the FCO.

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Nuclear Weapons not wanted in Scotland

2008-10-24 14:00

Political row over the future of nuclear weapons at base

24rd Oct 2008
by Tina Kemp, Scottish Lennox Herald

A FRESH row has erupted over the future of Faslane Naval Base. Defence Secretary John Hutton visited the base last week to reinforce the government’s pledge to keep nuclear weapons in Scotland. But the SNP, which has committed itself to ridding the country of the weapons, used his visit to reinforce its message that Trident must go.

But the SNP, which has committed itself to ridding the country of the weapons, used his visit to reinforce its message that Trident must go.

Westminster’s plans to replace the ageing Trident system are a direct challenge to the Scottish Government’s efforts to have it removed.

Mr Hutton described Faslane as “a vital part of our country’s defence” and said any decision to scrap Trident and its replacement would be an “incredible folly” and an act of “national vandalism”.

But Shadow Defence Minister, Angus Robertson, warned that rather than safeguarding employment, replacing Trident could cost Scotland and the Clyde 3000 jobs.

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