The Nuclear Information Service (NIS) has written to the Health and Safety Executive calling for an independent inquiry into last night's fire at the Atomic Weapon's Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston.
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NIS Update: July – August 2010
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Public pay five million pound bill for flood damage at UK’s nuclear weapons factory
Ministers have decided that the public should pay the costs of cleaning up after severe flooding at the Atomic Burghfield in 2007.
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NIS Update: May 2010
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The disinfectant of sunlight
News of recent pollution incidents at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston has reminded me of the bad old days back in the 1970s and 1980s when AWE's safety and environmental record was unimaginably worse than it is now.
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NIS Update: February / March 2010
DEFENCE GREEN PAPER SETS THE STAGE FOR STRATEGIC DEFENCE REVIEW
At the beginning of February the Ministry of Defence published the Green Paper 'Adaptability and Partnership: Issues for the Strategic Defence Review', outlining a series of key questions on defence issues that will need to be addressed by the next government.
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Panic in Portland during nuclear submarine emergency exercise
Several national newspapers have picked up a story from local newspapers in Dorset about the fiasco which resulted when local councils and the Royal Navy tried to run a nuclear emergency exercise in the Portland area.
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Fox and Fairlie: Two contrasting meetings
I sat in on two very different meetings on Thursday. The first, in the morning, was the more formal of the two: a lecture by Dr Liam Fox, the Conservative Party's defence spokesperson, hosted by the Politeia think tank at their London HQ.
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New AWE Emergency Plan highlights chilling consequences of a nuclear accident
A newly published emergency plan for the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) gives a chilling insight into the grim consequences of a major accident at one of Berkshire's nuclear weapons factories.
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Emergency services could not cope with nuclear submarine accident
An independent nuclear expert has cast doubt about the ability of emergency services to cope with an accident involving a release of radiation from one of the Royal Navy's nuclear powered submarines when berthed in Southampton Docks.
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Independent expert challenges nuclear submarine safety arrangements
Independent nuclear engineer John Large – who advised the Russian government on the salvage of the sunken submarine Kursk – has questioned the adequacy of safety arrangements designed to protect the public from the consequences of an accident on board a nuclear submarine berthed in Southampton docks.
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NIS Update: September 2009
AWE INVESTMENT SPENDING ROCKETS TO £1 BILLION PER YEAR
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced future spending plans for the investment and construction programme at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in a low key Ministerial Statement issued during the Parliamentary summer recess. On 9th September 2009 Quentin Davies MP, Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, announced: