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Anti-nuclear protesters demonstrate at West Berkshire Council

Anti-nuclear protesters demonstrate at West Berkshire Council

Reporter: Jane Meredith Reporter Email: [email protected] ANTI-NUCLEAR protesters picketed West Berkshire Council’s (WBC) offices yesterday (Wednesday), waving protest placards to highlight concerns about nuclear emergency planning arrangements at AWE Aldermaston. The protest, by members of the Nuclear Awareness Group (NAG), was timed to co-incide with a mock emergency exercise in relation to (AWE) Aldermaston, situated on the outskirts of the large town of Tadley and also close to Aldermaston village. AWE manufactures and maintains the warheads for…

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AWE protesters stage Remembrance Sunday vigil

AWE protesters stage Remembrance Sunday vigil

By Helen Morton A REMEMBRANCE vigil was held outside the gates of the AWE Aldermaston site last Sunday by a group of protestors. Women from the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, AWPC and Women in Black Against War, held the silent vigil outside the main gates of the factory at 11am for 15 minutes. Hazel Makepeace, of AWPC, said: “Our 15-minute silent vigil outside AWE is an annual event to remember all those lost, bereft, disabled…

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AWE criticised after radioactive substance found in Aldermaston stream

THE Atomic Weapons Establishment has been criticised after a radioactive substance was found in Aldermaston Stream. AWE was served with a formal warning letter by the Environment Agency following the detection of increased levels of tritium – a radioactive form of hydrogen – in the stream. It has emerged this week that the warning letter was sent in August after investigations were conducted to establish why unusual levels of tritium had been detected in the…

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AWE construction programme continues to make headway

AWE construction programme continues to make headway

By Nuclear Information Service Date: 30 January 2013   Significant progress has been made in delivering the major projects programme at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), with three key new facilities on schedule for handover to operational managers next year. A new high explosives fabrication facility at AWE Aldermaston, a small components precision manufacturing facility at Burghfield, and a hydrodynamics Technology Development Centre at Aldermaston - part of the Anglo-French ‘Teutates’ project - are all scheduled to…

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Secret UK uranium components plant closed over safety fears

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Rob Edwards The Guardian, Thursday 24 January 2013 Guardian Exclusive: regulators report steel corrosion at Aldermaston plant, which makes enriched uranium components for nuclear warheads   A top-secret plant at Aldermaston that makes enriched uranium components for Britain’s nuclear warheads and fuel for the Royal Navy’s submarines has been shut down because corrosion has been discovered in its “structural steelwork”, the Guardian can reveal. The closure has been endorsed by safety regulators who feared the…

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Aldermaston

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AWE Aldermaston is the central facility of the British nuclear weapon establishment. It is officially located at Aldermaston, near Reading, in Berkshire, although the main entrances are in the nearby village of Tadley. This facility not only performs most research activities, it also develops weapon designs, and manufactures the majority of weapon components, including nuclear components. It was officially established 1 April 1950 on the site of a World War II airfield. Weapons development work…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

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".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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