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Skills shortage threatens Trident safety, says MoD
New safety fears over 10-year failure to recruit enough skilled and experienced staff to work on UK nuclear weapons and submarines.
Trident safety blunders exposed 20 workers to radiation, says MoD
Trident submariners were guilty of a “prolonged and repeated failure” to understand and control reactor risks at the Faslane nuclear base on the Clyde.
RBS under fire over £4.5bn backing for nuclear bomb companies
RBS has been accused of making money from weapons of mass destruction
Trident is a disaster waiting to happen, says nuclear whistleblower
Trident submarines are plagued by serious security lapses, beset by multiple safety blunders and “a disaster waiting to happen”, according to a nuclear weapons engineer turned whistleblower now being hunted by the police.