https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-reportedly-planning-station-nuclear-weapons-britain-first-time-15-years 29 Jan 24 THE UNITED STATES is reportedly planning to station nuclear warheads in Britain that are three times as powerful as 1945’s Hiroshima bomb. Pentagon documents seen by the Telegraph indicate that the weapons could be stationed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, where the US previously stored nuclear missiles until 2008. The papers show…
More space is coming to dispose of nuclear waste at a Carlsbad-areafacility where the materials from around the country are buried thousandsof feet underground. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was initiallypermitted for eight disposal panels, where drums of transuranic (TRU)nuclear waste is disposed of via burial in an underground salt depositabout 2,000 feet beneath the…
FAILING to address acute concerns about the state of Trident nuclearsubmarines is putting Scottish lives “at risk” and shows Westminster's“blatant disregard for Scotland”, an MP has said. Martin Docherty-Hughes issued the warning ahead of a debate in Parliament today,in which he will attempt to get answers from the UK Government over seriousconcerns raised by a…
“We have the expertise, the supply chains and the teams ready to buildHinkley Point C safely, on time and on budget,” Vincent de Rivaz, thenchief executive of EDF, said in 2016 as the project to build the UK’sfirst nuclear power station since the 1990s got under way. That confidence has proven misplaced. Earlier this week,…
In west Somerset broadband is patchy and childcare is scarce, but there’s always £10bn to spare for a badly run mega-project WILLIAM SITWELL, In west Somerset broadband is patchy and childcare is scarce,but there's always £10bn to spare for a badly run mega-project. Some 10,000 people work on site there (with another 12,000 associated jobs…