Resources

Nuclear weapons convoy support vehicle
Nuclear weapons convoy support vehicle
Credit:fototruck.com

NWS Resources

Convoy Accidents and Safety

  • NARO - Nuclear Accident Response Organisation Plans. See p37 on deconfliction and p51 on exercises. Defence Nuclear Accident Response JSP 471 (pdf) (Was http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/dsc/nar/jsp471_foi_mar_04.pdf now removed)
  • Nuclear Accident Exercise Programme to 2008
  • All Agency Report on the Senator [Edinburgh Nuclear Accident] Exercise
  • Greenpeace report on the transport of plutonium oxide nuclear fuel across France in truck convoys: http://www.greenpeace.fr/stop-plutonium/en/TimmReportV5.pdf. The French convoys are lightly guarded civilian convoys, and are therefore not really comparable to weapons convoys in this country, but it's interesting to look at the way Greenpeace have done their risk analysis.
  • Joint Service Publication (JSP) 392 Instructions for Radiation Protection. http://www.mod.uk/.../JSP392/. Chapter 26 deals with Transport and movement of radioactive materials. The purpose of these instructions is to enable Ministry of Defence (MOD) units (including Defence Agencies) to comply with legislation relating to radiation protection. Where such regulations are not applicable to, or enforceable in, Ministry of Defence establishments the Ministry has undertaken by agreement with the relevant Government Department that UK health, safety and environmental standards will be applied where reasonably practicable.

    • Nuclear Weapons in the UK

  • Photos of warhead convoy vehicles from fototruck.com
  • For a factsheet on the new Criminal Trespass law which will apply on many nuclear-related military sites from 1st April 2006 see Trident Ploughshares article.
  • Trident and the future of the British Nuclear Deterrent. House of Commons Standard Note: SN/IA/3706. Last updated: 5 July 2005. Includes developments at AWE Aldermaston.
  • It may surprise many people that the UK still has approximately 110 US nuclear weapons, long after the end of the Cold War. The United States is the only country that deploys nuclear weapons outside its own territory and it has nuclear weapons located at RAF Lakenheath in the UK, and eight air force bases in six European countries - Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK. See NRDC press release and the NRDC full report. Also see RAF Lakenheath satellite image.