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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 27. november 2011 / Timeline November 27, 2011
Version 3.526. November 2011, 28. November 2011
11/27/2011
MoD spends £2bn on nuclear weapons ahead of Trident renewal
decisionMinistry accused of pre-empting parliament's decision on
Trident and attempting to force the hand of future governments /
Rob Edwards guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011.
AWE
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1)
whether he expects development of a new systems engineering
facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment to go ahead;
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(2) what his most recent estimate is of the (a) cost and (b)
projected in-service date for each of the new build projects in the
Atomic Weapons Establishment Site Development Context Plan 2005-15.
[77629]
Peter Luff: The projects included in the Atomic Weapons
Establishment Site Development Context Plan 2005-15 are shown in
the table. The functions of the projects given in the table
correlate with the headings in the Site Development Plan.
Project name Function Cost (£ million)
2010-11 prices
High explosives fabrication-Circinus Manufacturing/production 231
Projected in-service period 2016-20
Warhead assembly/disassembly-Mensa Manufacturing/production 734
Uranium components-Pegasus Manufacturing/production 634
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