A fire has broken out on the hull of the nuclear powered submarine HMS Torbay during maintenance work at Devonport Naval Dockyard.
Astute & SSNs latest news
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Navy’s newest submarine breaks down
The Royal Navy's newest nuclear powered submarine, HMS Ambush, has broken down just days after a commissioning ceremony at which it was formally welcomed into the Navy.
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Radiation leak forces Royal Navy nuclear submarine to return to base
Submarine ordered to return to dock following discovery of coolant leak.
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Audit Office: ‘More to do’ in improving Ministry of Defence equipment project performance
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) needs to do “consistently better” in improving cost management and reducing delays in the delivery of its major equipment projects according to the government's financial watchdog.
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Police investigating fatal shooting shocked by binge drinking on nuclear submarine HMS Astute
An inquest into a fatal shooting on board one of the Navy's nuclear powered submarines has been told that police investigating the incident were so shocked by binge drinking among the crew that they wrote to military authorities to highlight their worries.
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£2.7 billion contracts awarded for new Astute class submarines
The Ministry of Defence has awarded £2.7 billion of new contracts for construction of its planned fleet of Astute class attack submarines, despite costs overruns, severe delays, and concerns over quality of work on the vessels.
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Design and construction failures afflict HMS Astute
HMS Astute, the flagship for the Royal Navy's newest class of nuclear powered submarines, is reportedly too slow to carry out some of its duties, is subject to leaking and is beginning to corrode in places according to the Guardian newspaper.
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BAE – EADS merger raises Trident concerns for MoD
A planned multi-billion pound merger between two major military contractors has raised questions about how key government projects such as the Trident nuclear weapons programme would be managed. The Ministry of Defence is said to be demanding safeguards over the Trident programme as a condition of the planned merger between BAE Systems, which is currently […]
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NIS Update: August 2012
This month's NIS Update includes information on plans to hand over the RNAD Coulport Trident nuclear weapons store to private sector contractors; delays in hearing the court case resulting from the August 2010 fire at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, and arrangements for power range testing the nuclear reactor on board the Royal Navy's new Astute class submarine, HMS Ambush.
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NIS Update: May 2012
DESIGN CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR TRIDENT REPLACEMENT SUBMARINES
Contracts worth £350m have been signed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for design of 'Successor' Trident replacement submarines.
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Navy’s submarine reactors do not meet civilian safety standards
The nuclear reactors which power the Royal Navy's fleet of submarines do not meet civilian standards of safety according to secret documents released to the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Southampton nuclear submarine visit puts public safety in jeopardy
An imminent visit by nuclear powered submarine HMS Torbay to Southampton Docks has been condemned by an international expert in submarine safety for placing public safety at risk.
HMS Torbay, one of the Royal Navy's oldest serving nuclear powered submarines, will visit Southampton Docks from Saturday 13 November until Tuesday 16 November on a public relations trip hosted by Southampton City Council. The submarine had originally been intended to arrive on Friday 12 November, but has been delayed as a result of bad weather.