In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, the Defence Procurement Agency provided an overview of AWE Aldermaston C16/C15 Facility housing HELEN Laser and Support Laboratories, prepared by Radiation Physics Department for Term Contract Bid Teams. The HELEN Laser is required to support the Warhead Plasma Physics Programme, which is tasked with determining material properties and physical processes under conditions resembling a nuclear explosion. The document contain the facility layout and the laser schematic.
Tag: Aldermaston
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AWE CEO’s letter in response to media reports of Tritium discharge
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided AWE CEO’s letter in response to media reports of Tritium and various discharges.
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Minute of Aldermaston Health and Safety at work committee Dec 1998
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided a 12 pages minute of the 8th meeting of the Aldermaston health and safety at work committee held on Tuesday 15 Dec 1998.
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AWE response to MoD request for a list of publications
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided AWE’s response to the MoD request for a list of magazine, mail drops, press releases, publcity material and photographs of the sites. A list of 20 items was provided. The publication themselves were not included.
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AWE’s response to MoD question regarding Environment, Safety and Health indicators including performance for 1998 and target for 1999
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided AWE’s answer to the MoD question regarding Environment, Safety and Health performance indicators for 1998. AWE met 8 out of 10 indicators. Target for 1999 was also listed.
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AWE response to MoD questions regarding waste water discharge
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided AWE’s answer to the MoD question regarding waste water discharge at Aldermaston and Burghfield and Environmental Agency’s condition of consent. AWE is required to submit results of monitoring of at least 16 pollutants but admitted that outlets have not been routinely monitored.
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AWE response to MoD questions regarding pressure systems examination
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided AWE’s answer to the MoD question regarding whether all the written schemes of examination for pressure systems as required by HSE are in place.
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Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII)feedback to AWE Aldermaston emergency exercise May 1998
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided the answer to the MoD question regarding NII feedback to the Aldermaston site emergency exercise at 13 May 1998. The performance of the situations control centre, health physics assessment room were deem to be good. Overall assessment of medical aspect was satisfactory. Emergency control point arrangements need to be fundamentally re-examined. Recommendations were made regarding on and off site activities and local response by facility and shift engineers.
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AWE Aldermaston University sponsorship list
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided the answer to the MoD question regarding University sponsorship by AWE (PD/Tech/22/4), dated 12/3/99. It breakdowns the sponsorship by University, level of qualification and subject area.
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AWE A90 Maintenance Local Work Instruction : Defects and Tasking
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided the maintenance local work instruction (A90/LWI/MA/03) of A90 plutonium processing plant in Aldermaston, dated 06/07/1998. It details how the Maintenance Authority of A90 receives, registers, completes and closes out Defect Reports, Breakdown Dockets and Tasking Forms. This is an electronic copy of the hard copy no.6.
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AWE A90 Defect Reporting System
In response to FOI request by Rob Evans, Defence Procurement Agency provided the Defect Reporting System document (A90/GWI/OCC/5) of A90 plutonium processing plant in Aldermaston, dated 25/09/1998. It describes the workflow of handling defects in the A90 building. This is an electronic copy of the hard copy no.7 at location A90.9.
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What’s next for Aldermaston
June 2006 Examines plans for a series of new nuclear weapons production facilities at AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield. By John Ainslie Download if the embedded viewer has a problem