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MoD admits problems at Rolls-Royce could delay Dreadnought
This is the first official acknowledgement of the risk
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Rolls-Royce breached nuclear safety limits
The quantity of fissile material in a facility was more than 25% over the criticality limit.
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Reports highlight repeated failures by MOD over four decades
Case studies from the recent NAO and PAC reports
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Devonport fined £600,000 for crane near-miss
Devonport pleaded guilty to the charges, which related to an incident where a stack of crane weights narrowly missed a worker
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Devonport in ‘special measures’: no end date in sight
Devonport Royal Dockyard Limited (DRDL) remains under enhanced regulatory attention by the Office For Nuclear Regulation (ONR), and no date is given for an expected return to routine regulatory attention.
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AWE will miss 2020 date to leave ‘special measures’
Aldermaston and Burghfield will both remain in enhanced regulatory attention until at least 2021, a year longer than previously expected.
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Astute: seventeen month delay may impede Dreadnought programme
Handover of HMS Audacious was due in August 2019, but is now expected to be January 2021.
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AWE’s ‘do minimum’ waste plan: more details emerge
AWE's nuclear waste plan was developed as a ‘do minimum’ comparison option.
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£81m dividends paid to AWE consortium
Accounts show total dividend payments of £81.7m in 2018 to the Lockheed Martin, Jacobs Engineering and Serco.
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MoD will not refuel HMS Victorious
The older HMS Vanguard, is currently undergoing maintenance and refuelling at a cost of £204m
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AWE’s nuclear waste plan: send it to Sellafield
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) plan to send up to 5,000 barrels of Higher Activity Waste to Sellafield for treatment and storage.