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NIS publishes material relating to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston and Burghfield sites, located in the southern English County of West Berkshire. Since the 1950s, AWE is where the design, production, assembly, maintenance, disassembly and decommissioning of nuclear weapons takes place. Between 2004 and 2015, building developments are underway to enable a new generation of warheads to be researched and designed without underground nuclear testing. See monthly NIS Updates on the new developments at AWE.

Other nuclear weapons related sites include the Clyde facilties at RNAD Coulport and the Naval Base Faslane; RRMPOL Derby and DML Devonport. All these sites creat nuclear discharges and waste.

en 2012-02-08 13:58 £2 billion and rising: the cost of redeveloping the Atomic Weapons Establishment http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2161

The Ministry of Defence has pledged at least £2 billion of spending on new developments at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), according to new information released in response to a Parliamentary Question from Caroline Lucas MP.

The answer, which exposes the true scale of development at AWE, gives a breakdown of the costs for a number of new-build projects which are intended to keep the current Trident warhead in service and, if a future government so decides, allow the development of a new warhead in years to come.

]]> AWE Burghfield planning permission conditional on HSE approval http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2133 Conventional Manufacturing Facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield – but only on condition that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirms that it has no objections to the development on nuclear safety grounds in the light of the Fukushima nuclear accident. ]]> AWE Burghfield planning application resubmitted http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2125 planning application to West Berkshire Council to extend the time limit for construction of a new conventional manufacturing rationalisation (CMR) facility at AWE Burghfield.

Planning permission for the facility was originally granted in August 2008, with building work scheduled to commence within three years.  AWE has stated that construction of the new facility has not yet commenced because resources have had to be directed towards higher priority projects, and so a new application has been submitted to extend the time limit before planning permission expires. ]]> AWE Chief Executive and Finance Director resign from their posts http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2119  

The Chief Executive and the Director of Finance and Information Technology at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have both resigned from their posts at the Establishment.

The two men left their posts at the end of last year, but the news has only recently been released to local newspapers.

]]> Public pay five million pound bill for flood damage at UK's nuclear weapons factory http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2081

Taxpayers have been dumped with a five million pound bill to cover the costs of serious flooding at Britain's privately-run nuclear warhead factory, according to an official answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. ]]> New AWE Emergency Plan highlights chilling consequences of a nuclear accident http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2035 AWE sites proposed for nuclear submarine radioactive waste dump http://www.nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear+sites/AWE+Burghfield/a2031