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Emergency Planning for Climate Change

This Civil Contingencies (CC) Conference was organised by the Public Policy Exchange, in association with the Centre for Parliamentary Studies to facilitate policy discussion, debate and networking. It was attended by 25 delegates from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Army, Navy, local Emergency Planning Officers (EPOs), Fire Services,the Scottish Executive, Academics a journalist and NIS (also representing NAG, Plymouth Peace Group and SCANS).

Hansard on AWE Aldermaston, Nov 4th 2008

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects a pre-construction safety report to be submitted to the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on the planned construction of a uranium enrichment facility at AWE Aldermaston.

Hansard on MOD handling of Burghfield AWE floods

MoD admit that flood defences at AWE Burghfield were not designed to cope with run-off from surrounding fields.

Hansard on Nuclear Weapons, 27th Oct 2008

*Nick Harvey:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether US personnel will be asked to participate in his Department's work on the Warhead Pre-Concept Working Group;

Evidence of government multilateral disarmament gestures?

New Secretary of State for Defence, John Hutton lists evidence of government multilateral disarmament gestures but the fact remains that no UK bomb is on the table.

Burghfield AWE floods - Lib Dems call for inquiry

The Liberal Democrats have called for a full public inquiry into potentially catastrophic flooding at the Atomic Weapons Establishment site at Burghfield, in Berkshire during the 2007 floods.

Source: New Civil Engineer 14th Oct 2008

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.