None of the UK’s SSNs were at sea for a three month period up to early October.
Nuclear materials latest news
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US-UK nuclear sharing treaty to be indefinitely extended
Parliament has until 23rd October to object to the changes.
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US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement: A Nuclear Information Service Briefing
An overview of the history, current functioning and future of the US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement.
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New NIS Briefing on Mutual Defence Agreement
Nearly 1,000 components were imported under the MDA between 2020 and 2023.
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AUKUS plans progress with BAE announcement
The partnership is taking shape, but there are problems with production of Virginia-class submarines
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Aldermaston and Devonport to remain in ‘special measures’
Both sites are struggling with longstanding issues, according to the Chief Nuclear Inspector
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Aurora – Aldermaston’s new £2.5bn plutonium facility
The project is currently in its early design phase.
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John Ainslie’s Archives
The complete archives of the late nuclear weapons researcher John Ainslie. Over 3000 documents, reports, press cuttings and memos from Cold War times up until 2016.
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Rolls-Royce breached nuclear safety limits
The quantity of fissile material in a facility was more than 25% over the criticality limit.
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23 nuclear flights between UK and US in five years
Military nuclear materials are flown across the South of England and South Wales around four times a year on average, according to new information revealed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in answer to a Parliamentary Question. The materials, in transit between the USA and the UK, are essential to the UK's nuclear weapons and […]
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Ministry of Defence uses trucks which should have been scrapped five years ago to transport nuclear materials
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UK fissile material holdings reported
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has published figures for the UK's holdings of fissile materials for the year 2013, showing an increase in civil stocks of plutonium and high enriched uranium.