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	Atomic Weapons Establishment [AWE] - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		The Atomic Weapons Establishment began life in the early 1950s at Aldermaston as the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) under the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
		The AWRE was transfered to the MoD in 1973, and merged with the Directorate of Atomic Weapons Factories (Royal Ordnance Factories, or ROF) at Burghfield and Cardiff to form the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on 1 September 1987.
		The Atomic Weapons Establishment is implementing a comprehensive safety management system in order to comply with the Nuclear Installations Act.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/uk/agency/awe.htm (531 words)

	Britain's Nuclear Weapons - British Nuclear Testing
		This is the central facility of the British nuclear weapon establishment.
		Weapons development work was transferred there from the codenamed "High Explosive Research" (HER) project at Fort Halstead in Kent.
		Weapons grade plutonium production tends to interfere with the most economical production of electricity (requiring more uranium for fuel, longer shut down times, and more spent fuel handling), so they were not operated continuously for weapons grade plutonium production.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /Uk/UKFacility.html (1575 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 4 Dec 1990
		Atomic Weapons Establishments AldermastonBurghfield Foulness Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1987 14 6 2 22 1988 16 1 1 18 1989 27 3 1 31 1990 18 3 1 22 This is typical of previous years.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the principal specialist inspector visits atomic weapons establishment sites without informing atomic weapons establishment management prior to his visit ; and what is his security clearance.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the current staffing level of the safety division of the atomic weapons establishment ; what are the civil service grades of the members of the division ; and what powers they possess to alter operations within the atomic weapons establishment on the grounds of safety.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199091/cmhansrd/1990-12-04/Writtens-7.html (546 words)

	National Trust \| Orford Ness \| Military history \| AWRE
		Initial work on the Atomic Bomb concentrated on recording the flight of the weapon and monitoring the electronics within it during flight but a bulk of the work involved environmental testing, which in itself was being developed and advanced.
		These tests were designed to mimic the rigours to which a weapon might be subjected before detonation, and included vibration, extremes of temperature, shocks and G forces.
		The work was secret although details of Orford Ness' involvement with the research and development of the British atomic bomb may become more available over the next decades and may illustrate the priority and significance this project had to the government in the post war years.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-orfordness/w-orfordness-history/w-orfordness-history-post_war/w-orfordness-history-awre.htm (620 words)

	Plutonium and Aldermaston - an historical account (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1987 AWRE was renamed the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), on incorporation of two of the former Royal Ordnance Factories at Burghfield and Cardiff, to reflect the integration of all aspects of the nuclear weapons production programme under one management control.
		To produce relatively pure plutonium-239 for weapon purposes the fuel rods are removed from the reactor and reprocessed after a relatively short irradiation.
		From Establishments in Tables 2-5: The 15.99 tonnes of plutonium received by Aldermaston is for material for the weapons programme, for Barter movements to the US (see section 5) and for work in support of civil programmes commenced by Aldermaston when they were part of UKAEA.
	www.mod.uk /publications/nuclear_weapons/aldermaston.htm (4539 words)

	CND - CND IN THE NEWS
		She said we were claiming to be trying to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction yet were simultaneously planning to develop a new generation of nuclear weapons.
		The 90km march on the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, west of London, was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), one of Britain's oldest anti-war groups.
		The 90-kilometer (52-mile) march on the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, Berkshire, west of London, was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), one of Britain's oldest anti-war groups.
	www.cnduk.org /pages/cnews/040804.html (9875 words)

	News Wales > Politics > Trial of Welsh campaigner adjourned again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ray Davies of Bedwas and Dr Margaret Jones of Bristol have been charged with criminal damage at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
		The relevant authorisation could not be produced by the Atomic Weapons Establishment.
		The defendants, both members of the non-violent direct action group Trident Ploughshares say they are concerned with the illegality, immorality and the dangers of nuclear weapons to health and the environment of the present day and of the future.
	www.newswales.co.uk /?section=Politics&F=1&id=6092 (214 words)

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		March against a new generation of nuclear weapons March to Aldermaston 2004 This statement, just as relevant today, was written in 1957 by J. Priestley.
		Aldermaston AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) has been the centre of the British nuclear weapons programme since the 1950s.
		The recent attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and British and US declarations of their willingness to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, show that the world we live in today is, if anything, more dangerous.
	home.freeuk.net /cndys/downloads/Aldermaston_04_leaflet.doc (4445 words)

	NewsForge \| Atomic Weapons Establishment having a blast with Linux Networx supercomputer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Linux Networx super cluster is now part of the technology arsenal at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), a company that exists solely to provide warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent program.
		Since we will be commemorating the 60th anniversaries of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in just a few days, a quick review of the total reality Mr.
		Vagdama and others with his technological expertise to reconsider what they are doing when they help nuclear weapon states conduct end runs around the CTBT and other international agreements meant to lay the foundation for nuclear disarmament.
	hardware.newsforge.com /hardware/05/07/18/1626241.shtml?tid=32 (1539 words)

	Relicensing the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites to AWE p... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was recognised that long-term and short-term programmes for SNM could not be established immediately nor put in place by the new contractor on the first day of the new licence.
		AWE plc, the present licensee, established a new nuclear safety committee on foundations laid by the previous committee.
		Work has gone on in parallel to establish and confirm assurance responsibilities and competencies of all staff, and to introduce positive cultural changes into the company.
	www.hse.gov.uk /nuclear/awe/awe3rev.htm (5277 words)

	Orford Ness - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		At the height of the Cold War the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and Royal Aircraft Establishment used Orford Ness for developmental work on the Atomic Bomb and for the advancement of the science of environmental testing.
		Orford Ness was but one of many large Cold War experimental sites involved with the research and development of the British atomic bomb, taken together they illustrate the priority this project had to the government in the post war years.
		Completed in 1956, Laboratory 1 was the first of six atomic weapons test cells constructed on Orford Ness by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) from Aldermaston.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/uk/orford_ness.htm (1279 words)

	NEWS - Aldermaston Health & Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A forthcoming legal decision should determine whether the Atomic Weapons Establishment, at Aldermaston, comes under health and safety laws, that the rest of us have to comply with.
		If the court decides that military installations should, at least in some respects, be covered by health and safety laws then this will have implications for the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
		Mr Shiner stated that he believed that the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston should also be covered by this Act.
	www.clicknewbury.com /zones/news/story/20050208.1817.6.html (201 words)

	Tadley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the 1950s and 1960s the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, (AWRE) became the area's largest employer, and a large number of houses were built in Tadley during this period to accommodate AWRE workers.
		Although the name Aldermaston has become synonymous with AWRE/AWE, the fact is that establishment is much closer to Tadley than the village of Aldermaston.
		Development has occurred on either side of the Hampshire/Berkshire border following the growth of the Atomic Weapons Establishment on the old Aldermaston airfield in the 1950s and the designation of Basingstoke as a London overspill town in the 1970s.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tadley.htm (889 words)

	Yorkshire CND - ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT (AWE) ALDERMASTON IN THE DOCK - 17/8/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The accident ocurred in December 1997 when a Post Operative Clearout of the vacuum filter sustem of a disused glove-box was being peformed.
		After an almost identical accident on 13th February 1997, A Health Physicist recommended that unprotected workers should be 5 metres from any source of contamination but her advice was ignored and the "3 metre rule" continued.
		There was "complete confusion" as to who was responsible for establishing an exclusion zone around any particular facility, the distance of which would depend on the calculation of risk factors.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/alderm.htm (504 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Atomic Weapons Research Establishment was set up in the late 1940s by the Ministry of Supply.
		Its functions were scientific and technical research into atomic weapons and testing of Britain's atomic bombs.
		Under the Atomic Energy Authority (Weapons Group) Act of 1973, the Weapons Group became the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/25205.html (107 words)

	Weapons Inspection at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A team of inspectors from the Berkshire CIA (Citizens Inspection Agency) visited the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, where the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons are manufactured and maintained, to conduct an inspection of the site in an attempt to validate whether the UK government is complying with international laws on weapons of mass destruction.
		No United Nations weapons inspectors have ever been known to visit the UK to investigate the operations which take place at Aldermaston.
		At the same time we are not prepared to allow inspectors to inqire into our own weapons of mass destruction, which are many times more powerful than anything Saddam Hussein could ever expect to acquire.
	www.converge.org.nz /pma/cra0960.htm (373 words)

	Extreme Networks
		Atomic Weapons Establishment Relies on Extreme Networks to Meet the Demands of its High-Performance Computing Cluster
		The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has been central to the defense of the United Kingdom for more than 50 years, providing and maintaining the warheads for the country's nuclear deterrent.
		Uniquely among the nuclear powers, AWE covers the whole life cycle of nuclear warheads, in a single establishment.
	www.extremenetworks.com /libraries/casestudies/AWE_CS.asp (1057 words)

	The Mark Thomas Product
		In this show Mark Thomas cast his critical all-seeing eye on things nuclear, and took a peek over the fence at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, and unexpectedly became the first programme since the 1970s to be invited to film an interview from within the base.
		A new generation of weapons, from bullets to armored tanks, are now made of DU uranium, a nuclear waste material far denser than lead.
		The British Atomic Energy Authority concluded in 1991, based on an estimate of 25 tons of DU weapons fired, that 500,000 deaths could result in the long term.
	www.fnord.demon.co.uk /mt/fourth/fourth4.html (616 words)

	Search: NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN AN... - WebCrawler
		Nuclear weapon designs are often divided into two classes,...
		nuclear weapons, simply for the scientific and technical training experience the effort would bring.
		US officials say the Al Qaeda may have radiological material that could be used as a "dirty bomb," a primitive weapon designed more to terrify than to kill.
	msxml.webcrawler.com /info.wbcrwl/search/web/NUCLEAR+WEAPONS+DESIGN+AN... (235 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 14 Dec 1988
		The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Harwell) undertakes work, under commercial contract for the Ministry of Defence, which exploits its expertise in a range of matters including plutonium handling.
		(11) if the explosives disposal site at the atomic weapons establishment, Burghfield, is licensed by any organisation outside his Department.
		Member for Leyton of 2 November, Official Report, column 645, guard establishments in the (a) Bristol and (b) Oxford areas.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1988-12-14/Writtens-3.html (2973 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Aldermaston: Britain's bomb factory
		The AWE employs 4,000 people and is also involved in dismantling decommissioned and redundant nuclear weapons.
		The first British nuclear tests took place in the South Pacific in 1952 and atmospheric tests were conducted in the deserts of Australia a few years later.
		In the UK the name Aldermaston is synonymous with nuclear weapons and the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/696046.stm (459 words)

	World News GKCNN Online
		The atomic bomb that the plane was carrying, "Little Boy," detonated some 600 meters above the city center, killing 80,000 people--30 percent of the population--immediately or within hours of the explosion.
		The official rationale given by the US government for its use of nuclear weapons in the war has always been that it was necessary to save American lives by avoiding the necessity of an invasion of Japan.
		After the war, government officials, facing criticism for their decision to use the bomb, suggested that between 500,000 and 1 million Americans, and several million Japanese, were saved by dropping the bombs that completely destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	www.geocities.com /publik15/archive05/2005c34.html (1399 words)

	Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) \| DEFRA
		The Aldermaston site was established in 1950, forming part of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) until 1973, when ownership and management control of the site was transferred to MoD.
		The Burghfield site was originally established as a Royal Ordnance Factory for the manufacture of munitions and later became part of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in 1987.
		The Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 made provision for contractorisation of the sites and a Government-Owned Contractor-Operated (GOCO) fixed term contract was let to Hunting-BRAE Limited in 1993.
	www.defra.gov.uk /rwmac/reports/modwaste/20.htm (6868 words)

	2000 United Kingdom Special Weapons News
		Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence -- 28 June 2000 -- In the matter of the National Missile Defence (NMD), which the US is now discussing, we shall have to take key decisions on our own in respect of the US requests.
		REDUNDANT NUCLEAR SUBMARINES TO BE SAFELY STORED ON LAND Ministry of Defence 086/00 May 11, 2000 New proposals for the safe storage on land of the Royal Navy's decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines were announced today by Defence Minister Dr Lewis Moonie.
		ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT REVIEW COMPLETE Ministry of Defence 052/00 29 March, 2000 The Ministry of Defence today confirmed that the AWE ML consortium will take over management of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on 1 April 2000.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/uk/index00.html (254 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Business - Serco seals longer AWE deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		INDUSTRIAL and government services firm Serco Group has won a 15-year extension to its contract to run the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), adding £1 billion to its order book.
		AWE is the Government’s nuclear weapons research and development centre and has responsibility for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
		The management and operation contract includes the stewardship of the country’s nuclear deterrent, and the development of science and research programmes.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /business.cfm?id=90182003 (167 words)

	Yorkshire CND - AWE Management Ltd wins Atomic Weapons Establishment contract - 2/12/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ministry of Defence has awarded the contract for management of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)to the AWE Management Limited consortium which consists of Serco Limited, British Nuclear Fuels plc and Lockheed Martin Corporation.
		AWE is the United Kingdom Government's nuclear weapons research and development centre, and has responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile
		Security vetting of staff remains the responsibility of the MoD, with safeguards established to protect sensitive UK information and to maintain the UK's independence in nuclear matters.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/awe3.htm (277 words)

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