Another successful year for Nukewatch. Warhead convoys were tracked from Aldermaston to Coulport near Faslane, via the M25, past Peterborough, Leeds, Newcastle, Carlisle and Stirling. Special Nuclear Materials convoys were tracked to Rolls Royce Nuclear in Derby, to USAF Brize Norton and UKAEA Harwell in Oxfordshire, as well as between the two AWE sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
How Nukewatchers do it
New warheads are being built and delivered while perfectly serviceable ones are being withdrawn and decommissioned in order to keep the production capability but not go over the ceiling of 200. This has come to light during the Environment Agency's consultation on radioactive discharges from AWE when a break-down of discharges from the decommissioning and production of Trident warheads was published. New warheads also replace those destroyed in stockpile checks.
Trident shiplift, crewing, Franco-British Co-operation, Trident in Gibraltar and Brest. House of Commons, Written Questions 10 Jan 2000 : Column: 92W Faslane Shiplift Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions since 19 June the shiplift at Faslane has been used by (a) submarines and (b) surface ships; and if he will make a statement. [103411] Mr.
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