Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears

Lasrick writes "The Guardian has an exclusive story regarding a secret uranium-enriching plant in the UK that was closed due to safety fears. From the article: 'A top-secret plant at Aldermaston that makes enriched uranium components for Britain's nuclear warheads and fuel for the Royal Navy's submarines has been shut down because corrosion has been discovered in its 'structural steelwork', the Guardian can reveal. The closure has been endorsed by safety regulators who feared the building did not conform to the appropriate standards. The nuclear safety watchdog demands that such critical buildings are capable of withstanding 'extreme weather and seismic events,' and the plant at Aldermaston failed this test. It has set a deadline of the end of the year for the problems to be fixed.'"

"Secret" as in "well signposted"?

[Neil_Brown]

The AWE plant at Aldermaston is well signed from the road, and its website [awe.co.uk] seems at least reasonably open about what it does:

Our role at AWE is to manufacture and sustain the warheads for the Trident system ... Our work at AWE covers the entire life cycle of nuclear warheads; from initial concept, assessment and design, through to component manufacture and assembly, in-service support, and finally decommissioning and disposal.

Title inaccurate.

[L4t3r4lu5]

FormerlySecret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears

This is not the same Secret Nuclear Bunker which is signposted nearby Brentwood. That is a totally separate formerly secret nuclear site.

Re:"Secret" as in "well signposted"?

[mekkab]

No. It's probably "secret" as in "you don't have the clearance to enter the building and there are armed guards."

Re:"Secret" as in "well signposted"?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not secret that's just high security.

Re:"Secret" as in "well signposted"?

[dave420]

It's actually called SIS, not MI6.