Memorandum from the Aldermaston Women's
Peace Campaign
1. INTRODUCTION
1. This submission focuses on one of the
aspects under review of the "UK manufacturing and skills
base", and relates to the committee's decision to examine
"the Government's investment programme at the Atomic Weapons
Establishment, Aldermaston".
2. In a presentation of evidence, most of
which is already in the public domain, this submission seeks to
inform the committee's consideration of "the extent to which
the level of that investment is consistent both with maintaining
key skills and infrastructure in the design and manufacture of
nuclear warheads and with the stewardship of the UK's existing
warhead stockpile".
3. We will argue that investment in the
manufacturing and skills base at Aldermaston far exceeds that
required for stewardship of the extant stockpile and that investment
in both infrastructure and personnel indicates that the government
has already made a substantial investment towards the development
of the next generation of nuclear weapons in advance of a public
debate and a publicly announced government decision on the replacement
of the current Trident system.
2. PUBLIC SPENDING
ON ALDERMASTON
4. The most recent estim ates for the replacement
of the current Trident system range from £25 billion to £76
billion. [91]Disaggregated
figures for AWE Aldermaston are currently not available. The current
contract with AWEML is worth £5.3 billion, over 25 years
(2000-25).
5. The current annual budget is some £493
million; from figures made available in June 2006, this represents
an increase in specing of 36% over the previous financial year.
[92]
| 2000-01 | 2001-02
| 2002-03 | 2003-04
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 est
|
| £311 million | £291 million
| £278 million | £300 million
| £363 million | £493 million
|
6. An additional investment programme for the period
up to 2007-08 of £1 billion over three years (at £350
million per year) was announced by the government in July 2005,
[93]and confirmed in
September 2005. It is understood that this additional £1
billion is managed for AWE by Jacobs, the managing agents for
the major modernisation construction projects. [94]
7. According to John Reid, "additional investment
at AWE Aldermaston ... would be required to establish the levels
of investment necessary to sustain the minimum capability required
to support the policies described in the 1998 Strategic Defence
Review ... Of the total forecast expenditure at AWE between now
and the end of 2007-08, around 45% is capital costs, principally
on new facilities including the new Orion laser, and around 55%
is operating costs. [95]
8. The only major facility for which costs are currently
available is the Orion laser—at a cost of £183 million.
[96]Additional expenditure
in this current period may include one or more of the remaining
proposed major facilities outlined in AWE's Site Development Strategy
Plan (published in 2002 and updated in 2003 and 2005), perhaps
the hydrodynamics facility (see below), which is expected to be
underway before April 2008.
3. INVESTMENT IN
INFRASTRUCTURE AT
AWE ALDERMASTON AND
BURGHFIELD
9. Significant investment in infrastructure has taken
place over the last two years, with the construction of new buildings,
as anticipated in the 2002 site Development Strategy Plan. The
most significant of these is the Orion laser, at an estimated
cost of £183 million, reportedly 1,000 times more powerful
than the existing HELEN laser. According to a recent AWE report,
the Orion laser, the Core Punch (Hydrodynamics) Facility and the
new Uranium facility "are expected to reach commissioning
between 2008 and 2012".[97]
10. Two new IT buildings were also constructed in 2005,
presuambly associated with AWE's decision to procure a 40Teraflop
Cray XT3 supercomputer at an estimated cost of £20 million
and will be Cray's largest system in Europe: "The Cray XT3
is expected to provide at least a 20-fold increase [on the performance
of the current Blue Oak system]; this may well turn out to be
nearer 30-fold".[98]
11. According to IT specialists consulted by AWPC, the
levels of supercomputer performance required by AWE far exceeds
any reasonable requirements for the modelling and management of
the UK's nuclear stockpile, or of its disposal and long term storage.
They believe its capabilities are consistent with the development
of a successor to Trident.
In the pipeline: Hydrodynamics (core punch) facility
12. It is anticipated that contracts for the proposed
new hydrodynamics research facility may be issued soon. Addressing
a parliamentary question in June 2006, the Minister of Defence
responded that it was planned to increase the number of staff
working on hydrodynamics research and, with regard to the new
facility he stated, "A number of options are under consideration.
Mature costings are not available." [99]To
date, no planning application for this facility has been made
by the MoD to the West Berkshire Planning Committee.
13. According to the 2005 Site Development Strategy Plan,
the following further production facilities are planned: a warhead
assembly facility at Burghfield; plutonium component manufacture
(refurbishment of the A90 complex); highly enriched uranium component
manufacture (secondary (fusion) part of any future thermonuclear
weapon); Tritium Facility; Explosives Handling Facility and—under
consideration—a new facility to manufacture an assemble
Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) components for submarine reator
fuel. [100]
14. In order to house both additional staff and contractors
(see bloew), three new office buildings have already been constructed
and more are planned, including a "forthcoming" £60
million two-phased new build office development. In March 2006,
two concrete towers at the west end of site had been demolished
to make way for offices. [101]
4. CONTRACTORS AND
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
ALREADY UNDERTAKEN
15. The committee should, when considering the level
of investment at AWE, use a realistic forecast of future investment
for which there is evidence in the public domain. Our evidence
shows that commercial contracts have been announced forf [the
building of] more than one facility at AWE Aldermaston and which
refer to a timescale longer than to 2007-08.
16. According to Dr Glue, acting managing director of
AWE, the number of contractors [at Aldermaston] is expected to
rise to approximately 1,200 in total over the next three years.
[102]
17. Evidence from publicily available sources shows that
there is optimism in the building and nucelar industries that
the MoD intend to make further investment for many years to come.
Information is publicly available about contracts which have already
been put out to tender, bid for, issued and announced.
18. Some of this information is included in this submission,
and should be disclosed to Members of the present Committee and
to MPs in a timely fashion in the interests of a fair and informed
debate, and where no decisions have apparently yet been taken.
This information should be available to the committee from the
Ministry of Defence (MoD) and not as the results of our research
on the internet.
19. The following examples make clear that the government
investment programme is anticipated by industry to continue beyond
2007 and is expected to be an ongoing and long-term programme:
— Information disclosed by company contract announcements
has been accxurately predictive in the past: in 2003 RPS Engineering
announced that they had won a five year contract (to 2008) in
support of major processing facilities saying: "... it is
anticipated that further significant work will follow [...] AWE
are likely to increase their capital expenditure for the provision
of new and refurbished facilities over the coming years."
[103]
— Jacobs Engineering announced in December 2004
a three-year contract (2004-07) to manage the government's £1
billion investment programme. This contract was "for a three
year period extended annually".[104]
— According to the Energy Industries Council (EIC),
the proposed new warhead assembly buildings at Burghfield were
put out to tender and bid for by Amec in April 2005. It appears
from the EIC minutes that there has been a delay associated with
this facility. In June 2006 Des Browne answered that no decisions
about the proposed new warhead assembly buildings had been taken.
[105]
— WS Atkins announced in 2005 a major design house
contract at AWE making clear this was in support of an "ongoing
programme of modernisation and refurbishment at the AWE sites".
In their interim results published in November 2005 they made
clear that this appointment for AWE was "in respect of a
major infrastructure programme spanning several years" ...
"In particular, Atkins will be driving forward the development
of major new `high nuclear' complex research and processing facilities
at AWE's sites".[106]
— It was reported in Building Magazine on
16 December 2005 that the government were in talks with Jacobs,
WS Atkins and four other companies about the £1 billion investment
at AWE. These were Amec, RWE Nukem, Jacobs Babtie and Mott Macdonald.
[107]AWE confirmed
that they had entered into contracts with three companies of whom
Atkins was one, and that they intend to engage with a total of
five companies. The MoD have consistently answered that no decisions
have been taken (other than to build the Orion laser) and that
no costs are available for any major facility other than the Orion
laser.
— In December 2005 it was announced that Bob Irvin,
ex-Operations Director with Jacobs Engineering, had joined the
board of AWE plc. This is the company owned by the AWEML consortium,
and responsible for delivering AWE's programme for the MoD. AWE
have said that his role on the board of AWE plc is to direct the
major modernisation and construction projects. This suggest that
AWE expect their commercial relationship with Jacobs to be significant.
[108]NII/HSE have reported
that they have been tole by AWE that AWE and Jacobs staff will,
from now on, be indistinguishable. Again, this suggest a significant
and long term commercial relationship is planned. [109]
— In February 2006 Anders Elite Recruitment Agency
advertised for building contractors at AWE Aldermaston, saying:
"The agreement should be renewed in three years, with a view
to the value of works rising to £20 million a year, and we
are optimistic that the agreement will be extended to 20 years."
[110]
— In March 2006 Boulting plc announced that they
had become a preferred supplier at AWE saying "a series of
Frameworks, by discipline, has been put in place to construct
and deliver an extensive 10 year build programme of site works
to modernise and improve the manufacturing facilities at AWE to
allow for the next generation of Research and Development Projects."
[111]
— Tip Top Job, an online recruitment source, are
currently advertising for a quantity surveryor at AWE Aldermaston:
"Due to increases in project work (contracts secured to 2009)".
[112]
20. Contractors seen working on the Orion laser site
as of September 2006 included, Select Plant Hire (cranes) and
Expended Piling (pile driving for the foundation of Orion); Raymond
Brown (diggers and JCBs), NRC (cranes) and Garic. [113]
21. Crown House Engineering have mechanical engineering
and plumbing contracts and will be on site in the coming months.
[114]
4. RECRUITMENT OF
PERSONNEL AT
AWE ALDERMASTON
22. According to a statement made in September 2005 by
Acting Managing Director Dr David Glue to the AWE Local Liaison
Committee, "Although not in the Ministerial Statement, the
MoD has also confirmed to journalists that this will involve increasing
the workforce by around 350 in each of the next three years. This
investment will allow AWE to press ahead with the modernisation
of the sites and the LLC will be kept informed of progress".[115]
23. According to an AWE advertisement placed in a physics
journal, new posts will involve the development of warhead concepts
into working engineering designs, through to fabricated and tested
prototypes. The production of prototypes would in itseld suggest
that staff are being recruited to develop a successor warhead,
rather than manage the existing stockpile. Recruitment also provides
an indication of the scale of the programme, with advertisements
that call for teams of engineers and numbers of specialists. [116]
24. In September 2006, for exampke, AWE advertised approximately
204 posts, including 31 warhead-related vacancies. [117]One
of these vacancies involves "managing a team of Requirement
Engineers that will be a focal engineering requirement for future
weapon systems [our emphasis]". Some examples of these
adverts for these posts appear in Appendix 1.
25. In response to a parliamentary questions, Adam Ingram
confirmed on 3 July 2006 that "In the period July 2005 to
end March 2006, a total of 504 staff (including 180 to replace
natual wastage) were recruited to the Atomic Weapons Establishment
at Aldermaston and Burghfield". Half of these were in engineering.
[118]
26. Amongst many other warhead-related jobs on offer,
AWE are currently recruiting a "Lead Systems Engineer",
one of whose stated responsibilities will be to "Attempt
to influence MoD thinking in respect of warhead system options."
[119]
5. CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
AWE: So advanced,
we're answering questions
that haven't yet been asked. [120]
Stockpile Stewardship or the next generation of nuclear weapons?
27. In this submission, we hope to have demonstrated
that investment at AWE Aldermaston has shown a dramatic increase,
far more than that required for "stockpile stewardship"
which has been ongoing at the site since the initial deployment
of the Trident system. The budgetary increase of some 36% has
brought with it a projects 1,050 additonal staff, an anticipated
1,200 contractors onsite and significant building work. the longevity
of contracts, the employment of staff to build prototypes, and
the construction of state-of-the-art laser and IT facilities (both
with a massive increase in technical specifications and capacity
over the existing HELEN laser and Blue Oak computer respectively)
is indicative of a massive increase in investment at AWE. Indeed,
the scale of developments has been compated in AWE's in-house
magazine, with that of Heathrow's Terminal 5. [121]
28. We conclude that "the Government's investment
programme in the manufacturing and skills base and construction
at the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston" far exceed
that required for stewardship of the extant stockpile. The current
levels in both infrastructure and personnel indicates that the
government has already made a substantial investment in the development
of the next generation of nuclear weapons. This has taken place
in advance of a public debate, promised by John Reid in September
2005, and a public decision by the government on the replacement
of the current Trident system.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendation 1
The Ministry of Defence shuld disclose information about
the nature and costs of contractual obligations already entered
into with contractors and companies by the MoD/AWE to parliament,
or at lead to members of the committee.
Recommendation 2
The Ministry of Defence should disclose information to the
Committee on the numbers of staff recruited since 2002, specifying
the job-titles, skills-base of recruited staff and programme areas
in which staff will work, include whether for stockpile stewardship
or for research and development of new weapons. The same information
should be provided on plans for future recruitment.
Recommendation 3
The Ministry of Defence should provide the Committee with
details of all construction which has taken place at AWE since
2002, and building work which is currently in design, planning
or is currently out to tender, specifying in detail the precise
role and function of these buildings, including wheather for stockpile
stewardship or for research and development of new weapons.
APPENDIX 1
EXAMPLES OF WARHEAD-RELATED POSTS ON OFFER AT AWE DURING 2006https://careers.awe.co.uk
"Warhead Electrical EngineerTo provide electrical/electronic
design analysis, evaluation and qualification of a Warhead Electrical
System.
To support the approval programme for the introduction of
the System in UK Trident.
To be responsible for maintaining the Design Authority design
record for the System.
To be responsible for preparing trials requirements and trials
specifications.
To participate in electrical trials in the UK and functional
trials in the US.
To be responsible for preparing trials evaluation reports
for trials.
To be responsible for preparing technical assessments based
on UK and US qualification evidence.
To review formal analysis and design evidence to support
approval submissions.
To undertake modifications to the UK Trident design package.
To support warhead Process Run Throughs at AWE(B).
To represent the Design Authority at AWE meetings.
To represent the Design Authority at US/UK exchanges."
This person will be expected to travel to test facilities
in US.
"E&SD Warhead Electronics Design Engineer (Graduate
Trainee)
Development of Warhead Electrical System sub-assemblies and
related items.
The design and development of electronic control systems
in support of Programme Elements as tasked by line management;
notably the development and maintenance of demonstrable capibility
to develop nuclear warhead arming and firing control systems."
This job also involves travel to US.
"E&SD Warhead Electronics Design Engineer
Development of Warhead Electrical System sub-assemblies and
related items.
The design and development of electronic control systems
in support of Programme Elements as tasked by line management;
notably the development and maintenace of demonstrable capability
to develop nuclear warhead arming and firing control systems."
"E&SD Warhead Electrical Systems Engineering Technician
Layout and construction of electronics hardware for use in
Warhead Electrical System (WES) sub-assemblies/related items,
and provision of design support.
Produce electronics hardware to a suitable standard in support
of Warhead Electrical Systems (WESA) design activities, including
assembly and wiring of electronics circuits and module.
Design and procure printed circuit boards (PCBs) for use
within WES assemblies."
"E&SD Manufacturing Engineer
To be a member of a small group concerned with the build,
test, and analysis sof small mechanical systems which are the
main safety components in Nuclear Weapon Arming, Fuzing and Firing
systems.
Become a technical expert in the technologies associated
with manufacturing precision mechanical mechanisms. These include
precision machining, specialised welding, and glas-ceramic sealing.
Develop and maintain a detailed knowledge of UK industrial
capability for providing these specialise proceeses. Visit potential
supplies and engatge in meetings regarding manufacturing processes
and future production of components and assemblies.
Place and manage external contracts aimed at providing AWE
with an assured source of these critical manufacturing processes.
Write visit reports and assements/recommendations on supplies
suitability for long term production.
Co-ordinate all manufacturing operations for AWE strongline
designs through the prototype, full development, and final production
states of manufactur and assembly. Co-ordinate the design and
procurement of all necessary tooling, jigs, and fixtures for pre-production
batches, and make recommendations for all production tooking in
conjunction with the selected suppliers.
Assess designs and recommend changes for ease of manufacture
and assembly. Conduct research into new manufacturing processes,
assess their usefulness and make recommendations to designers
as to their suitability for component manufacture. Actively take
part in design review meetings."
"E&SD Graduate Mechanical Engineer
Undertake warhead design, trials and evaluation tasks."
"E&SD Senior Systems Engineer
Provide project support and systems engineering management
of through life integration activities for electro-mechnical systems."
(This is for Warhead Electrical System).
"E&SD System Integration Requirements Engineer
The role will involve managing a team of Requirement Engineers
that will be a focal engineering requirement for future weapon
systems."
"E&SD System Integration Requirements Manager
The postholder will manage a team of requirement engineers
that will be a focal point for capturing and managing engineering
requirements for future weapon systems."
"E&SD Systems Engineer" (WES).
"E&SD Systems Engineer
To conduct and co-ordinate Warhead Systems Engineering studies.
Co-ordination and conduct of Warhead Systems Engineering
studies.
Being proactive in the generation and maintenance of Warhead
System and Warhead sub-system requirements.
Preparation of estimates for inclusion in bids for future
work."
"E&SD Warhead Electrical Systems Formal Methods
Hardware Developer.
To be involved in the design and development of Warhead Electrical
Systems.
To undertake research and development in support of Warhead
Electrical Systems (WES), including development of relevant skills
and professional standing.
Member of the Warhead Electrical System Development Team.
Maintenance and develop Warhead Electrical Systems capability,
in particular High integrity hardware (HIH) development with formal
methods."
"Precision Fitter
The manufacture, assembly, modification, disassembly and
maintenance of warhead and special related assemblies and equipment.
The machining and manufacture of components.
To support the Technical Facilities Supervisor in meeting
the requirements of the following programmes:
— Warhead Development Centre training.
— Threat Reduction Division training and exercises.
— In-service Support trials.
"Analytical Instrumentation Chemist
To work as an integral part of an internationally acclaimed
team of scientists and provide a world class capability for the
chemical characterisation of special warhead materials.
Install, commission and develop the advanced analytical instrumentation
needed to underwrite fabrication & certification of warhead
components, aid assessment of materials design & performance
characteristics and support materials ageing & surveillance
programmes."
"E&SD Graduate Formal Methods Developer
To be a member of a team involved in the design and development
of Warhead Electrical Systems.
To undertake research and development in support of Warhead
Electrical Systems (WES), including development of relevant skills
and professional standing.
Maintenance and develop Warhead Electrical System (WES) capability,
in particular High integrated software development with formal
methods. Support requirements analysis and modelling of designs
with formal methods, including liaison with customers."
"E&SD Warhead Electrical Systems Formal Methods
Hardware Developer.
To be involved in the design and development of Warhead Electrical
Systems."
"Member of the Warhead Electrical System Development Team
Maintenance and develop Warhead Electrical Systems capability,
in particular High integrity hardware (HIH) development with formal
methods."
"E&SD Systems Engineer
To conduct and co-ordinate Warhead Systems Engineering studies.
Co-ordination and conduct of Warhead Systems Engineering
studies."
"Hydro Design Group Shock Physics Researcher
Shock physics research relevant to warhead applications.
Designing and assessing experimental research trials to further
the understanding of relevant shock and detonation phenomena."
"Mechanical Design Engineer
Mechanical Design Engineer—Warhead Systems Engineering.
Liaison with Engineering Manager for Warhead processing on
design related assembly/disassembly issues.
Management of Warhead Design.
To provide mechanical engineering support to AWE Design Authority."
"Metallurgist/Materials Scientist
To work as part of an acclaimed team of metallurgists material
scientists and provide a world class capability for the metallurgical
and micro-structural characterisation of special warhead materials.
Apply advanced physical properties measurement and materials
composition determination techniques to underwrite, manufacture
and through life behaviour of warhead components, aid assessment
of materials design and performance characteristics and support
surveillance programmes."
"NMR Spectroscopist
To contribute to the delivery of the organic warhead materials
programmes. Develop predictive capabilities to assess the lifetimes
of such materials and work on developing new replacement materials".
"Polymer Materials Specialist
Responsible for developing, manufacturing and characterising
polymeric warhead materials, specialising in syntactic foams.
To contribute to research, development, component fabrication
and production, post design services, in-service support and life
assessment activities for syntactic foams.
To develop expertise in polymeric warhead materials through
a structured programme of agreed and appropriate training."
"Secondary Physicist
To contribute to research, development, component design,
fabrication and production activities for warhead materials.
Theoretically model nuclear device performance and increase
the understanding of the underlying physics.
To develop an expertise in warhead materials."
"Theoretical Chemist
Work as a member of a team of highly skilled Theoretical
Chemists applying cutting edge techniques to the modelling of
warhead materials. Develop an expertise in the application of
advanced computational techniques to the modelling of warhead
materials.
Contribute to research activities of warhead materials and
help understand and explain synthesis of new materials.
Operate and develop computing systems to perform data handling
and analysis of nuclear weapons test data.
Contribute to reports on nuclear weapons test data through
interpretation of radionuclide measurement data.
Maintain and develop databases and websites to efficiently
archive nuclear weapon diagnostic data."
"Warhead Electrical Engineer
To provide electrical/electronic design analysis, evaluation
and qualification of a Warhead Electrical System.
To support the approval programme for the introduction of
the System into UK Trident.
To be responsible for maintaining the Design Authority design
record for the System.
To be responsible for preparing trials requirements and trials
specifications.
To participate in electrical trials in the UK and functional
trials in the US.
To be responsible for preparing trails evaluation reports
for trials.
To be responsible for preparing technical assessments based
on UK and US qualification evidence.
To review formal analysis and design evidence to support
approval submissions.
To undertake modifications to the UK Trident design package.
To support warhead Process Run Throughs at AWE(B)."
"Warhead Processing Engineer
To provide engineering warhead design support in aid of the
Burghfield processing programmes as directed by the Engineering
Manager (Warhead Processing).
To represent the Engineering Manager (Warhead Processing)
during Slow Run Throughs (SRTs) and Process Run Throughs (PRTs)
held in the Burghfield Licensed Site.
To provide warhead design support and guidance to production
staff during the processing activities.
To produce technical reports/minutes as requested by the
Engineering Manager (Warhead Processing).
To assist the Warhead Processing team with additional warhead
processing activities where necessary."
30 September 2006
91 "New Trident system may cost £76 billion,
figures show", Guardian, 21 September 2006, Back
92
As at 31 March 2006, written answer, Des Browne to Alan Simpson,
7 June 2006. Back
93
"Trident to get £l billion boost-Reid", 19 July
2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4697605.stm Back
94
Jacobs Engineering Summary Annual Report 2005, p 15, Environmental
Programmes. "This year, we began our relationship with AWE,
serving as managing agent of their three-year, £l billion
(US $1.7 billion) government investment programme to sustain key
skills and facilities at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire,
England." Back
95
Written Answer to PQ: John Reid to Mike Hancock, 29 November
2005. Back
96
Written answer to PQ: Des Browne to Nick Harvey, 16 June 2006. Back
97
Information to support proposals for revised Radioactive Substances
Act 1993 Radioactive Waste Discharge & Disposal Authorisations
for AWE plc at Aldermaston, AWE/DSDG/B/EC/AD/011, AWE report,
November 2005, p 58. Back
98
"AWE's workload benchmark picks 40Tflop/s Cray XT3"
1 March 2006 Back
99
Hansard, 6 June 2006, Written Answers. Back
100
A planning notice for an Explosives Handling Facility was submitted
to the local planning authority in August 2005, and withdrawn
a few days later; "What Next for Aldermaston?", Scottish
CND Briefing. Back
101
Minutes of 44th Local Liaison committee, March 2006. On 5 July
2006, an advert appeared for a Building Surveyor/Project Manager-to
manage a forthcoming £60 million two-phased new build office
development-Aldermaston, West Berkshire, see http://www.justrail.net/vacancies/vacancy-display.asp?id=21077 Back
102
Minutes of the 42nd AWE Local Liaison Committee Meeting, Thursday
15 September 2005. Back
103
RPS Group News, 9/05/03, "RPS Engineering and Safety Division
Wins Contracts", Back
104
http://www.babtie.com/company/1-2-2_newsstory.aspx?id=1&s=165&c=1&d=1550,
Jacobs Babtie News headlines, "Jacobs receives contract from
AWE", 8/12/04, accessed 9/21/06; Back
105
Energy Industries Council, Minutes of the Northern Region Committee
Meeting held at Mistui Babcock, Gateshead, 18/04/05, http://www.the-eic.com/meetings/regional/minutes/18apr05.pdf,
"35.Burghfield Assembly Building based at Aldermaston. M
& E tenders out to bid. Amec bidding. Possibly delayed" Back
106
Atkins Global news release, "AWE awards major Design House
contract to Atkins", 23 November 2005; Back
107
"Five firms set to share £ l billion Aldermaston revamp"
16 December 2005, Back
108
Minutes of the 43rd AWE Local Liaison Committee Meeing, 1/12/05, Back
109
HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield,
Quarterly Report for 1 October to 31 December 2005, http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/2005/awe4.htm,
accessed 9/21/06. Back
110
AndersElite Technical Recruitment's website, Site Manager, "The
framework, at the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Research Facility,
represents around £10 million of building works a year, currently.
The agreement should be renewed in three years, with a view to
the value of works rising to "20 million a year and we are
optimistic that the agreement will be extended to 20 years." Back
111
http:/www.boulting.co.uk/article.asp?id=87 Boulting Group plc
website news item, "AWE Aldermaston Supply Chain Framework",
March 2006, accessed 9/21/06. Back
112
Tip Top Job "Quantity Surveyor-Aldermaston", Back
113
Crown House Engineering, Select Plant Hire and Expanded Piling
are all part of Laing O'Rourke. Back
114
Crown House Engineering currently hold mechanical, electrical
and plumbing sub-contracts, as part of the £20 millon MW
Zander contract for the Orion laser. Back
115
Minutes of the 42nd AWE Local Liaison Committee Meeting, Thursday
15 September 2005. Back
116
http://physicsweb.org/jobs/jobdetail/6853. Back
117
https://careers.awe.co.uk Back
118
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060703/text/60703w1331.htm Back
119
http://careers.awe.co.uk/wd/plsql/wd_pds?p_web_page_id=30297 Back
120
http://physicsweb.org/jobs/jobdetail/6853 Back
121
Bob Irving, AWE Today, January 2006. Back
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1877260,00.html
and confirmed as "new" money by John
Reid in answer to Mike Hancock MP, November 2005:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm051103/text/51103w07.htm
Chairman's Remarks Minutes of the 42nd AWE Local
Liaison Committee Meeting, 15 September 2005.
See also Health and Safety Executive, Quarterly report
2005 (October to December), which describes Jacobs as managing
agent to the "current investment programme".
http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/2005/awe4.htm
http://www.hoise. com/primeur/06/articles/weekly/CL-PR-04-06-l.html
AWE's announcement:
http://www.awe.co.uk/main_site/scientific_and_technical/featured_areas/
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