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The Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston (formerly the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston) is situated in the UK, just 7 miles north of Basingstoke and approximately 14 miles south-west of Reading, Berkshire, near a village called Aldermaston, bordering with Tadley. AWE plc File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
AWE plc File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Location within the British Isles View from Basingstoke railway station forecourt; the chrome yellow buildings stand on the site of older office buildings that have been demolished to build apartments. ...
St Marys Church and market Reading is a town and unitary authority in Berkshire in England, at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, halfway between London and Oxford. ...
View of Aldermaston village circa 1959 Aldermaston is a village in the English county of Berkshire, two miles north of Tadley. ...
Map sources for Tadley at grid reference SU604612 Tadley is a small town and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. ...
Other Atomic Weapons Establishment sites could be found at Burghfield and Cardiff, the former Royal Ordnance Factories, although Cardiff is now closed. Burghfield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England. ...
The Norman Keep, Cardiff Castle Aerial view of the Millennium Stadium The Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay The Cardiff Indoor Market Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales. ...
The Aldermaston site (grid reference e.g. SU595635) and Burghfield site (e.g. SU675680) were previously omitted from Ordnance Survey maps for security reasons, which instead showed some fictitious detail at those locations. Since the advent of easy general access to aerial photography, these sites are now marked on the latest map revisions. (As of November 2005, popular map web sites use a range of editions from before and after this change; compare for example Streetmap and Multimap.) Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ...
The main output of this facility is that of plutonium fissile materials for the use in nuclear warheads. The site was formerly an airfield (RAF Aldermaston) during the Second World War, and then was retained for government use for the research and production of nuclear weapons, to put the UK in the league of nations who possess nuclear arms. General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block ?, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ...
This article or section should include material from Fissile material In nuclear engineering, a fissile material is one that is capable of sustaining a chain reaction of nuclear fission. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...
RAF Aldermaston was an airfield in Berkshire during the Second World War. ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
AWE is responsible for the design, manufacture, support and decommissioning of the UK's nuclear arsenal. Recently the facility has dismantled the WE177 nuclear bomb and produced the warheads for the UK's Trident missiles. The UK government is committed to ensuring that AWE can produce a next generation nuclear weapon, should that be necessary. The WE177 was the last air-launched atomic bomb in the inventory of the United Kingdom. ...
Ohio-class submarine launches Trident ICBMs (US Navy graphic) The Trident missile is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from submarines (SSBNs), making it a SLBM. The Trident was built in two variants: the I (C4) UGM-93A and II (D5) UGM...
The plant is the final destination for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's annual march from Trafalgar Square, London. The first Aldermaston march was conceived by the Direct Action Committee and took place in 1958. It marks the beginning of the resurgence of civil disobedience in Britain after the Second World War. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ...
Trafalgar Square is a square in central London that commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars. ...
Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7. ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It has been suggested that Civil and social disobedience be merged into this article or section. ...
There is currently a monthly women's peace camp held outside the Establishment to protest against its existence. First peace camps Peace camps are known from the 1920s. ...
Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ...
Management
In 1993 control of the plant was handed from Central Government to the Hunting-Brae company. During Hunting Brae's management AWE decommissioned the RAF's WE177 freefall nuclear bomb. In 1998 the company suffered two prosecutions for safety breaches, one for discharge of tritium into a nearby stream and another for an incident where two workers inhaled plutonium. 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Tritium (symbol T or 3H) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block ?, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ...
In 1999 the company lost the contract to AWE Management Ltd, (AWE ML) a consortium of BNFL, Lockheed Martin UK and Serco which assumed responsibility on April 1, 2000. Having won the contract AWE ML became the owner of AWE plc which is responsible for the day-to-day operations of AWE. This does not represent privatisation, the Ministry of Defence still owns all the AWE sites and a Golden Share in AWE plc. Critics have pointed out that BNFL and Lockheed Martin do not have perfect safety records either. BNFL has suffered embarrassing revelations of falsified quality checks in nuclear fuels and Lockheed has been the subject of scathing reports on the operation of U.S. nuclear facilities. Lockheed's failings include safety concerns at the Y-12 facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an American weapons plant similar in certain ways to Aldermaston. Categories: Government of the UK | Stub ...
Lockheed Martin U.K. (LMUK) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, headquartered in London. ...
Serco Group plc is an international company with several branches. ...
April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Main Building - The Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, Westminster, London Tri-service badge of the UK armed forces The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the UK military. ...
Golden Share or Zolotaya Aktsiya (Ð—Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ñ‚Ð°Ñ ÐÐºÑ†Ð¸Ñ in Russian) is a nominal share, held by a government organization, in a government company undergoing the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company. ...
Oak Ridge is a city located in Anderson and Roane Counties in eastern Tennessee, about 25 miles west of Knoxville. ...
See also The Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Harwell, Oxfordshire was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s. ...
List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ...
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