Dounreay and Indian nuclear test The Dounreay nuclear plant has been implicated in the Indian nuclear weapons programme which has led to a series of Indian nuclear tests. The UK Atomic Energy Authority which runs Dounreay has admitted that 40 fuel core elements were supplied to India for a research reactor. The UKAEA say that these core elements were then send from India to Dounreay for reprocessing in 1991 and were reprocessed in 1993. The authorities claim that no British uranium has ended up in Indian nuclear weapons. But there has clearly been British support for the Indian nuclear industry, which has since gone on to develop and test nuclear arms. Experience gained from running the research reactor would have been used by the Indian nuclear scientists to develop their bomb. It should also be remembered that Dounreay has been closely associated with the British military nuclear programme. In the past the plant has handled very large quantities of nuclear material from the UK nuclear weapons research plant at Aldermaston. Today there is a working prototype of the reactors on Trident submarines at Dounreay, called HMS Vulcan. Dounreay