Contents
- Summary
- Background
- SCANS Objectives
- The nuclear release Scenario
- Exercise Failures
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
Summary
Safety latest news
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Nuclear watchdog alarmed by Faslane danger
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor Sunday Herald
A series of safety lapses at the Faslane nuclear submarine base on the Clyde, including one in which workers were over-exposed to radiation from a
reactor, has worried government inspectors. Internal documents obtained by the Sunday Herald reveal that the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has been concerned about poor supervision at the base and is monitoring the situation. -
Southampton – Z berth exercise
Southampton City Council's Nuclear Emergency Plan can be found on
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/advice/emergencies/emergency-planning/default.asp
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Navy use nuclear accident exercise to try to reopen commercial ports to nuclear submarines
PRESS RELEASE issued 14 Ferbuary 2006
Navy use nuclear accident exercise to try to reopen commercial ports to nuclear submarines
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Navy plan to re-introduce nuclear submarines into UK commercial ports
On Wednesday 22nd February 2006 a nuclear accident exercise will take place in Southampton. The Navy aims to prove that in the event of a nuclear reactor accident in a submarine moored at a “Z Berth”, people will be protected from radiation. Protection is offered by advising people to take shelter and to self-evacuate from shopping areas in the town. In addition Potassium Iodate Tablets (PITS) will be distributed to everyone within a 2 Kilometre radius of the Z Berth. The so-called ‘Foxwater06’ exercise will largely simulate these events with a table-top exercise.
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Dorset Echo Nuclear subs to return to Portland
This article is a straight from a navy press release and fails to mention problems with aging submarine coolant systems and the radiation risk from a reactor melt down. Nor does it admit that foreign boats could come in with nuclear weapons on board. Southampton and Liverpool are NOT in use, although the Navy has been trying for five years to persuade the councils to accept them.
NUCLEAR submarines are to return to Portland under new plans announced by the Royal Navy. by Paul Greaves <mailto:newsdesk@dorsetecho.co.uk>/
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SCANS Newsletter, December 2005
Navy plan to end 5 years of NUCLEAR FREE Docks
Dear Friends
You may know of SCANS’ success in keeping nuclear submarines out of the so-called ‘Z Berth’ in Southampton Docks since 2000. Legal and technical experts presented evidence on your behalf to Southampton City Council on the real hazards of a nuclear submarine accident. -
Oxford Mail: How safe are we?
The prospect of highly volatile nuclear material being transported past our front doors is an unnerving one, to say the least.
So protesters were right to turn out at the weekend to highlight the practice and demand that safer methods of moving it to be adopted.
Whether or not their calls will be heeded is another matter.
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Tritium release event
HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield Quarterly Report for 1 April to 30 June 2005- Tritium Release event
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Nuclear convoy could explode
Nuclear convoy could explode, admits MoD, 17th July 2005
By Rob Edwards, Environment Correspondent, The Sunday Herald
Trident warheads carried regularly by road to the Clyde naval base could explode if they are involved in a major crash, an internal Ministry of Defence report reveals.
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Portsmouth Nuclear Accident Plan – Hansard
*Mr. Hancock:* To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make available in the Library a copy of the Portsmouth nuclear accident plan. [6794]
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Against a “Z” berth in Southampton
POSITION PAPER
AGAINST A “Z” BERTH IN SOUTHAMPTONIn relation to the berthing of nuclear powered submarines in Southampton Docks,
Solent Coalition Against Nuclear Ships (SCANS) holds that:Background
Following the City Council Meeting of 2nd May 2001 when evidence from the Navy was outweighed by that of the expert nuclear engineer, John Large,(i) there has been no “Z” Berth in Southampton Docks