Nukewatch resources – NukewatchUK

Warning - nuclear materials

UNREADY SCOTLAND – Nukewatch Report (2017 560kB)
Nukewatch leaflet (Mar 2013, PDF 914kB)
Model Letter to Scottish Councils on Convoy Routes (2017)
Model letter to Emergency Planning Officers and Councils in England (2017 RTF)

Convoys, Accidents and Safety

Ministry of Defence Contract for supporting the nuclear weapons convoy (obtained Oct 2010)
NARO – Nuclear Accident Response Organisation Plans. See p37 on deconfliction and p51 on exercises. Defence Nuclear Accident Response JSP 471 (pdf) (local copy, original now removed)
Nuclear Accident Exercise Programme
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, see here. Includes the 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

For a factsheet on the new Criminal Trespass law which will apply on many nuclear-related military sites from 1st April 2006 see here.
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.

Nukewatch Policy

We think that it is very important that Nukewatch continues to monitor the safety of UK nuclear warhead convoys, and that convoy dangers are highlighted to the general public and those along its routes.

But we think it’s important that Nukewatch does not add to the risks associated with these convoys so we do not publish detailed technical information which might conceivably result in harm to a convoy. We advise trusted members of our own network in advance about convoy movements but do not broadcast information about convoy locations when it is on the road using social media or via the internet in ‘real time’, although we may do so later on the same day.