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Over a considerable period, Booth Industries has been working with AWE to design, supply and install specialist doors and panels on a number of different on-site projects.
 
This includes the AWE Orion laser facility; the UK’s largest ever science project to construct a world leading laser capability, and the AWE Gemini office accommodation project that will house 1,400 staff who operate from the Aldermaston site.
 

NIS source
Extract:
 
Background
 
On 16th July 2010 the Ministry of Defence submitted a planning application to West Berkshire Council for construction of a new hydrodynamics research facility at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston (planning reference 10/01695/COMIND) .

Observer source
 
Group calls for planners to think twice about a major new facility at Trident warhead base at Aldermaston in Berkshire
 
Health and safety practices at the UK's main nuclear weapons base are under intense scrutiny just weeks before it is expected to be granted permission for a multibillion-pound facility to conduct a new generation of radioactive tests.

Basingstoke Gazette source
 
by Lucie Richards
 
Bosses at the Aldermaston nuclear bomb factory want to build a replacement research facility to help calculate how materials will behave in a warhead.

Newbury Weekly News source
 

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AWE source
 
More information at AWE website:
'Hydrodynamics

Foreword
This report is issued as part of the Health and Safety Executive's commitment to make information about inspection and regulatory activities relating to the above sites available to the public. It is for distribution to members of the AWE Local Liaison Committee (LLC) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at Aldermaston and Burghfield. These reports are distributed quarterly and are available also from the Internet at http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/index.htm. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate attend LLC meetings and will be happy to respond to any questions raised there by members. Any other person wishing to enquire about matters covered by this report may contact HSE’s Nuclear Directorate Information Centre on 0151 951 4103.
 

Extract: 'Hydrodynamics is the study of explosively driven systems operating at supersonic velocities involving the interaction of a wide range of materials including metals and plastics. A complete suite of diagnostic tools are applied to study the experiments including flash radiography.'
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Hansard source - 8 Jun 2010 : Column 93W
 
Mr Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what account he plans to take of environmental impact assessment regulations in implementing proposals for a new hydrodynamics facility, project Hydrus, at Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston. [961]