AWE Burghfield Planning Application for a Dis/Assembly facility to be decided. WBC Planning Committee Meeting 6.30pm Wednesday 4th March 2009, Council Offices, Market Street, Newbury, Berks. See Planning Officer's Report
Burghfield latest news
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Hansard on sale of AWE ML to US company
3 Mar 2009 : Column WA128
BNFL: Sale of Assets
Questions
Asked by Lord Astor of HeverTo ask Her Majesty's Government who decided not to disclose the terms on which British Nuclear Fuels Ltd agreed on 17 December 2008 to sell its one-third share in the management company of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, to Jacobs Engineering.[HL767]
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NIS Updates – February 2009
NIS Update 24th February 2009
Overwhelming objection to MoD Plans for AWE Dis/Assembly Facility
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Objection to MoD Planning Application: 08/02287/COMIND
The requirement for AWE to improve the safety of its warhead disassembly bunkers is not disputed. In 2007 NIS published ‘How Safe is AWE Burghfield?’ a report based on FoI disclosures documenting the safety failures of the existing ‘Gravel Gertie’ (GG) facilities and addressing the dilemma in which the MoD found itself. In 2006 and 2007 the HSE Nuclear Inspectorate (NI) pressed AWE to close the facility until essential safety improvements could be carried out. The MoD refused on ‘national security‘ grounds.
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Environment Agency Response to MoD Planning Application
Environment Agency Response to MoD Planning Application to West Berkshire Council for a Dis/Assembly facility at AWE Burghfield. The Agency's response to the planning application is to offer no objection to the plan but to impose six Conditions
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NIS Update – AWE Assembly/ Disassembly facility Planning Application 08/02287/COMIND
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e-mail: office@nuclearinfo.org www.nuclearinfo.org - NIS UPDATE 30th January 2009
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AWE Assembly/ Disassembly facility Planning Application 08/02287/COMIND
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Hansard on Control of Atomic Weapons Establishment – 26th Jan 09
Asked by Lord Astor of Hever, 26 Jan 2009 : Column WA3
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they retain full ownership and control of all the assets of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, notwithstanding the appointment of a consortium company to manage the establishment; and, if so, (a) in whom that ownership and control is vested; and (b) in what documents their working arrangements with that management company are set out. [HL771]
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Hansard on AWE Burghfield Safety, 26th Jan 2009
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence his Department holds on the safety of airborne particulate debris arising from the functioning of the Main Process Facility at AWE Burghfield. [249007]
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NIS Update – AWE Planning Application submitted for Assembly / Disassembly facility
NIS Update 17th December 2008, AWE Planning Application submitted for Assembly/ Disassembly facility
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Hansard on AWE Aldermaston, Dec 15th 2008
Mr Mike Hancock *(Portsmouth South): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Lewes of 10 ovember 2008, Official Report, column 777W, on AWE Aldermaston, hether his Department is considering financing any elements of the rogramme to replace the Trident nuclear warhead through private finance initiatives. (244306)
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NIS Update November 2008
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Hansard on AWE Aldermaston, Nov 4th 2008
4 Nov 2008 : Column 300W
AWE Aldermaston
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects a pre-construction safety report to be submitted to the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on the planned construction of a uranium enrichment facility at AWE Aldermaston. [232377]Mr. Quentin Davies: There are no plans to build a uranium enrichment facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). Nor has the process of uranium enrichment ever been undertaken at AWE Aldermaston.