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Improvement Notice served on AWE after radioactive waste failure

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 2 August 2015

The Office for Nuclear Regulation has served a formal Improvement Notice on the Atomic Weapons Establishment following AWE's failure to meet a legal requirement to treat radioactive waste.

Supercomputing upgrade at Atomic Weapons Establishment

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 2 August 2015

The Atomic Weapons Establishment is to receive an upgrade to its high performance supercomputing system to further boost its ability to undertake research contributing to the development of new nuclear weapons.

500 jobs to be cut at Atomic Weapons Establishment

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 30 July 2015

Five hundred jobs are to be axed at the factory which designs and manufactures the UK's nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons factory to stay under 'special measures' for third year running as watchdog reports decline in MoD nuclear safety performance

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 7 July 2015

Safety

Atomic Weapons Establishment off the hook over failure to treat radioactive waste

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 11 May 2015

The Atomic Weapons Establishment will not be prosecuted for failing to treat intermediate level radioactive waste stocks which have accumulated at its Aldermaston site – even though the company defied a legally binding instruction by missing a deadline to deal with the waste.

Atomic Weapons Establishment management contract to be terminated?

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 10 May 2015

A 25 year contract to manage the government laboratory where the UK's nuclear weapons are designed and built may be terminated by the Ministry of Defence as a result of poor performance, safety concerns, and project management failures.

Warhead factory's flagship construction project placed 'on hold'

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 7 March 2015

Delays Possible

   

New emergency planning area calculations for AWE sites

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 20 December 2014

New hazard assessments published by the Atomic Weapons Establishment for the Aldermaston and Burghfield nuclear sites suggest that the impacts of a radiation emergency at either site would extend over smaller areas than currently defined in emergency plans, raising fears that emergency planning areas may be reduced in size.

Submarine waste storage and the Atomic Weapons Establishment - a briefing for local residents

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 13 November 2014

Environment Agency raps Atomic Weapons Establishment over radioactive waste management staff shortages

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 2 October 2014

The factory that manufactures the UK's nuclear weapons has been rapped by a government regulatory agency for the second time this year for failings in radioactive waste management arrangements.

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