The most recent Nuclear Installations Report on AWE can be found at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/2006/aldermaston3.htm
There are less worrying points than in the previous quarter's report but concern is still expressed about operations at Burghfield. The following agreement suggests that disassembly is only allowed to continue at a low level.
NIS alerts BBC to nuclear waste train breakdown
At 17.30 on 24th October, Eleanor Carpenter, a NIS networker based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne alerted the NIS office to the closure of Sunderland rail station due to a damaged nuclear train.
Was a USA Aldermaston planned in 1993? Tri Valley Cares, the anti-nuclear NGO local to Lawrence Livermore Laboratories site in California has been opposing the National Ignition Facility since 1994. Given the lead time for such projects, we can assume that the original design and plans have now been overtaken by new science. Originally priced at million, the 192-beam NIF mega-laser will cost in the region of billion to build. With operating costs factored in over its projected lifetime, it could cost over billion.
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Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent assessment he has made of the levels of radioactive pollution on foreshores close to the locations of Z berths (a) in Portsmouth harbour and (b) elsewhere; and if he will make a statement. [64784]
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