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AWE agrees to return safety awards following fire prosecution

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 11 June 2014

AWE plc, the company which operates the Atomic Weapons Establishment, has returned three awards presented by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents following the fire at AWE Aldermaston in 2010.

Atomic Weapons Establishment under investigation by safety watchdog for failing to comply with radioactive waste management orders.

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 24 February 2014

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) – the factory where the UK's nuclear weapons are designed and made – is under investigation by the government's nuclear safety watchdog for failing to comply with instructions for managing a growing backlog of radioactive waste.

Over fifty British universities funded by Atomic Weapons Establishment

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 11 February 2014

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UK and France extend warhead research collaboration into new areas

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 5 February 2014

    

Regulator extends timescale for completion of AWE structural improvements

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 4 January 2014

Repairs to structural damage to a major nuclear processing facility at Britain's main nuclear weapons factory will not be completed until May 2015 – almost three years after the problems were first discovered.

Standards of accountability and openness at Atomic Weapons Establishment rated “poor” in annual review

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 3 January 2014

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Serco group to repay £68 million to government following tagging fraud

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 19 December 2013

Serco Group, one of the three corporate partners in AWE Management Ltd, the company which runs the UK's nuclear weapons factories, has agreed to repay more than £68 million to the government after overcharging on a contract with the Ministry of Justice for the electronic tagging of prisoners.

Go-ahead given for construction of Pegasus uranium store

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 18 December 2013

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has given permission for construction work to start on a radioactive materials store as part of 'Project Pegasus' at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), but has criticised AWE for “numerous instances” of failing to provide adequate information in the application to commence work.

Investigation by safety watchdog concluded that AWE fire could have resulted “in many fatalities”

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 1 December 2013

A scathing report by the government's health and safety watchdog into a fire which broke out at Britain's nuclear weapons factory has concluded that it was fortunate that the incident did not lead to “numerous fatalities.”

Nuclear weapons factories placed under 'special measures' by government nuclear safety watchdog

By Nuclear Information Service
Date: 6 November 2013

The factories which build and maintain the UK's nuclear weapons are among five nuclear sites which require an “enhanced  level of regulatory attention” because of the risks they pose, according to the government's nuclear safety regulator.

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