Ministers have made the 'Main Gate' decision on the next steps to be taken in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme for addressing the legacy of the Royal Navy's fleet of redundant nuclear powered submarines, announcing that submarine dismantling will take place at the Rosyth and Devonport naval dockyards and outlining the approach which will be used to select an interim storage site for radioactive waste from the submarines.
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Ministry of Defence seeks commercial sites for storage of radioactive waste from submarines
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched a search to find commercially owned sites for the storage of radioactive waste from its fleet of redundant nuclear powered submarines.
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NIS Update: February 2012
SAFETY REPORT REVEALS WIDESPREAD SAFETY FLAWS AT CLYDE SUBMARINE BASE
Significant safety shortfalls continue to dog the Clyde submarine base, where the UK's nuclear weapons and submarines are based, according to a Ministry of Defence (MoD) safety report released to the Sunday Herald newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Submarine dismantling – only half the story
Ministry of Defence video about the Submarine Dismantling Project
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Nuclear ethics: forgotten virtues?
Earlier this week I was invited to a meeting of the Birmingham Policy Commission – an initiative set up by the University of Birmingham to examine the arguments for and against nuclear power as a future energy generating technology.
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NIS Update: October 2011
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON SUBMARINE DISMANTLING OPTIONS TO COMMENCE
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that a 16 week period of public consultation on options for its Submarine Dismantling Project will commence on Friday 28 October 2011.
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NIS Update: June – July 2010
REDUCTION IN UK NUCLEAR WARHEAD NUMBERS BEGINS
The Ministry of Defence has announced that the programme for implementing reductions in the number of UK nuclear warheads outlined in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) has now commenced.
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Radioactive waste treatment facility at AWE Aldermaston two years behind schedule
Photo: Radioactive waste management facility at the US Y-12 Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant (US Government open source)
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NIS Update: October – November 2010
MOCK WEAPONS INSPECTION TO TAKE PLACE AT AWE
A mock weapons inspection will take place at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in December as part of the latest phase of the UK – Norway Initiative.
The aim of the exercise will be to test confidence building measures during an inspection so that international inspectors can be allowed access to sensitive sites without endangering nuclear secrets.
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Government must consult openly on Plutonium management
The government must consult in an open and transparent manner on
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AWE sites proposed for nuclear submarine radioactive waste dump
The two Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites in Berkshire have been included on a secret shortlist of sites where the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is thinking of dumping radioactive waste from defunct nuclear powered submarines, according to an authoritative report in a Scottish newspaper.
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NIS calls for end to plutonium production
NIS has called for the UK's stocks of plutonium to be treated as waste, and for production of plutonium to cease as quickly as possible.