Jane Tallents

Gaps revealed in nuclear convoy crash preparations

Rob Edwards on June 28, 2019June 30, 2019

A series of shortfalls in Scotland’s emergency arrangements for coping with a nuclear bomb convoy crash have been exposed by a Scottish Government review.

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Safety risks exposed by nuclear bomb convoy exercise in Scotland

Rob Edwards on June 23, 2019June 24, 2019

An emergency exercise imagining an explosion spreading radioactive contamination from a nuclear bomb convoy crash in East Lothian was hampered by communication breakdowns that would have put people at risk.

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Environment, Nuclear weapons

Anger at MoD plan to rethink nuclear submarine waste disposal

Rob Edwards on April 2, 2019April 6, 2019

Plans by the Ministry of Defence to rethink the disposal of radioactive waste from 27 defunct nuclear submarines have come under fierce fire from campaigners.

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Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland

Rob Edwards on December 30, 2018December 6, 2019

The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west Scotland, documents released by the National Archives reveal.

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Nuclear weapons

MoD took seven years to conduct ‘urgent’ review of nuclear convoy dangers

Rob Edwards on July 3, 2018April 6, 2019

The Ministry of Defence has failed to complete a review of the public hazards of nuclear bomb convoys despite being told by its watchdog in 2011 it was urgent.

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Nuclear weapons

Alarm over steep rise in nuclear bomb convoys in Scotland

Rob Edwards on May 2, 2017May 8, 2017

The number of nuclear bombs being driven to and from the Clyde rose more than fivefold last year to help modernise Trident.

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Jane Tallents

Nuclear weapons

Gaps revealed in nuclear convoy crash preparations

Nuclear weapons

Safety risks exposed by nuclear bomb convoy exercise in Scotland

Environment, Nuclear weapons

Anger at MoD plan to rethink nuclear submarine waste disposal

Environment, Nuclear weapons

Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland

Nuclear weapons

MoD took seven years to conduct ‘urgent’ review of nuclear convoy dangers

Nuclear weapons

Alarm over steep rise in nuclear bomb convoys in Scotland

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