OXFORD MAIL
Date published: Monday 28 November 2005
Campaigners criticise A34 convoys
by Giles Sheldrick
Peace campaigners at a rally in Oxford vowed to keep up the pressure on the Ministry of Defence to decommission Trident nuclear weapons. On Saturday, campaigners in
Peace campaigners at a rally in Oxford vowed to keep up the pressure on the Ministry of Defence to decommission Trident nuclear weapons.
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.
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.
A military convoy transporting nuclear warheads left its base near Reading, Berkshire under cover of dark at 10.10pm on Thursday 6th May. This breaks with the long held practice of running these convoys in daylight for safety reasons. The change to “continuous running” is part of a new MoD regime that sees the warhead convoy making a quick dash up the country without stopping overnight, with only short breaks at military bases en route before reaching its destination in Scotland.
The Nuclear Information Service calls upon the next British Government to:
Hansard- Trident and Nuclear Transport
Trident, 7 April 2005 : Column 1769W
2002 STRATEGY PLAN
FOR THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON
AWE Planning Notice for the Laser and its Building
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
Trident nuclear warheads are transported around Britain between the places of manufacture – at AWEs Aldermaston and Burghfield in southern England – to the storage and loading facilities at Coulport in Scotland, for deployment on Britain's four Trident nuclear submarines.
CONTENTS
– Chevaline Convoys
– Citizen Verification
– Warhead & SNM Convoys
– MDP Convoy Command
– LAESI Guidelines
– Aldermaston
– Annual Gathering
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