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Nuclear Education Centre To Close

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Published on Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:37
A £2.2 million UK nuclear education centre created in 2004 to capitalise on decommissioning spin-offs is to close its doors due to lack of interest. The Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation Centre (DERC), located near the Dounreay nuclear plant in northern Scotland, was set up as a major education, training and research centre to pioneer nuclear decommissioning education in the UK
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Former Lord Advocate Queries Trident's Legality

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Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2007 14:44

The former Lord Advocate, Lord Murray, is seeking advice from the current holder of the office, Eilish Angiolini, on the legality of Trident nuclear missiles.

Lord Murray was one of a delegation of campaigners who  made a submission to the Lord Advocate, calling on her to examine evidence that the nuclear deterrent, housed at Faslane naval base on the Clyde, may be illegal under international law

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1957 Accident Released Twice As Much Radioactivity

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Published on Tuesday, 09 October 2007 14:21

Britain's worst nuclear accident, the 1957 Windscale fire in Cumbria, released twice as much radioactive debris as was previously thought. 

'We have had to double our estimates of amounts that were released,' said former UK Atomic Energy Authority researcher John Garland. As a result of this re-evaluation, scientists say the fire - which sent a plume of caesium, iodine and polonium across Britain and northern Europe - may have caused several dozen more cases of cancer than had been estimated previously.

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Obama Calls for Elimination of all Nuclear Weapons

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Published on Tuesday, 02 October 2007 15:28
Senator Barack Obama has proposed setting a goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons in the world, saying the United States should greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism.

In a speech at De Paul University in Chicago, Mr. Obama added  his voice to a plan endorsed earlier this year by a bipartisan group of former government officials from the cold war era who say the United States must begin building a global consensus to reverse a reliance on nuclear weapons that have become “increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”

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171 Arrests at Faslane

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Published on Tuesday, 02 October 2007 15:03

At least 171 people were arrested on the last day of the year long Faslane 365 protest for taking non-violent direct action at the home of BritainÂ’s Trident nuclear weapons submarines. .

Around 600 protestors from across the UK and Europe non-violently shut down road access to the base on the Clyde from around dawn. Some used tubes with their arms locked on to one another to make their removal more difficult, whilst others superglued themselves together. Both gates to the base were blocked as was the road to the nearby Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport, where the Trident nuclear missiles are stored.

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UK's Plutonium Stockpile

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Published on Tuesday, 02 October 2007 14:41

Britain has stockpiled 100 tonnes of plutonium - enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs, according to a report by the Royal Society. They warn that the material could be used to make "a crude nuclear bomb", and are calling for its disposal.

Report chairman Professor Geoffrey Boulton said: "The stockpile has grown whilst international nuclear proliferation and terrorist threats have increased. Just over 6kg of plutonium was used in the bomb which devastated Nagasaki and the UK has many thousands of times that amount. We must take measures to ensure that this very dangerous material does not fall into the wrong hands."

 
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Safety of nuclear bomb assembly plant

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Published on Thursday, 20 September 2007 09:02
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The Ministry of Defence has ignored warnings from nuclear safety inspectors and has
continued to assemble Trident nuclear weapons in facilities which the Health and Safety
Executive says do not meet modern safety standards.
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MOD Projects Over Budget

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Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:19
leftThe Ministry of Defence's 20 biggest weapon projects are £2.6 billion over budget and 36 years behind schedule according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
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New CND Report on Trident & Employment

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Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2007 14:32
A new CND Report, Trident & Employment: The UKÂ’s industrial and technological network for nuclear weapons makes clear that replacing the Trident  weapons system will have a detrimental impact on employment.
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Salmond calls for ban on nuclear convoys

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Published on Monday, 10 September 2007 12:01
leftThe First Minister of the Scottish Government has called for a ban on the convoys transporting Trident nuclear weapons. He has announced that a summit will take place on nuclear weapons and that this issue will be considered.
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More Articles...

  1. Scottish Government summit on Trident
  2. Jeremy Greenstock questions Trident decision
  3. B52 loaded with nuclear weapons by mistake
  4. Edwards Wants To "Rid the Planet" of Nuclear Weapons
  5. Aldermaston's new bomb
  6. US to upgrade more Trident warheads
  7. Polaris missile handling incident
  8. Designation of new British warhead project
  9. New Nuclear Power Plants Unlikely Before 2020
  10. Clinton and Obama on nuclear weapons
  11. New reactor for Trident may be built at Dounreay
  12. Motion to cut funding of new warhead
  13. Videos of campaigning against nuclear weapons in Scotland
  14. MP awarded for anti-nuclear stance
  15. Hiroshima Commemoration Paisley
  16. MPs Attack £3bn Cost Overruns on Defence Projects
  17. Let\'s Have a Real Debate on Trident
  18. Government Ducking Questions On MPs\' Trident Vote
  19. SCND response to Gordon Brown on replacing Trident
  20. Moderator and Cardinal say Trident is immoral

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