Sellafield faces renewed criticism in new report over its sluggish progress in radioactive waste disposal; raising concerns about long-term safety.
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Strategic Defence Review 2025
The UK released its latest Strategic Defence review, outlining perceived national security threats and responses.
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Scottish National Party, Disarmament and Nuclear Power
Former and current Scottish leaders urge SNP to support multilateral disarmament and nuclear energy
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Who pays for MOD radioactive clean-ups?
Is the MOD dumping radioactive submarine reactor clean-up reponsibility?
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Did US submarines support the UK’s latest nuclear-armed patrol?
None of the UK’s SSNs were at sea for a three month period up to early October.
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Secrecy ramping up as problems mount in the UK nuclear programme
The increasingly draconian approach to secrecy is worse than at any time since NIS was founded.
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Major 14-hour fire in Barrow submarine assembly hall
Seven workers were admitted to hospital and later discharged. The extent of damage to submarines is not known.
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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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AWE Emergency Exercise
NIS reports on the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) emergency exercise on 16 July
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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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201 days: HMS Vengeance completes another long patrol
This is thought to be the second longest patrol on record
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Astraea: new warhead named in Defence Command paper
The Paper also contained information about completion of the Mk4A warhead upgrade and work on a new submarine reactor