UK campaign against Rolls Royce`s nuclear folly – Details 1st May 2014

10:30-12:00 Thursday 1st May
QEII Conference Centre
(Opposite Westminster Abbey/Central Hall)
Come and Tell Rolls Royce:
No New Nuclear Weapons!

Rolls Royce’s Annual General Meeting is on 1st May. It has a key role in designing and making the nuclear reactors to power the ‘Successor’ nuclear-missile-carrying submarines. The go-ahead is not officially due until 2016, but work on them worth £3 billion is under way.

For more than 40 years Britain has agreed to negotiate the abolition of its nuclear weapons. But it has never begun to do so. 14 years ago Britain further undertook to ‘totally eliminate’ its nuclear weapons.

Yet the Defence Secretary told Parliament that the ‘Successor’ submarine programme would ensure that Britain’s nuclear weapons would remain effective into the 2060s – 100 years after it agreed to get rid of them!

Come and tell Rolls Royce to have nothing to do with it.

London and East Midlands CND

Email for confirmation or questions cid:X.MA1.1398172479@aol.com

Court action against Rolls Royce, over radiation safety issue

Rolls-Royce facing legal action over alleged radiation safety failings at Derby site By RJohnson_dt | February 03, 2014 ROLLS-ROYCE is being taken to court over alleged safety failings at one of its Derby sites The allegations brought by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency relate to the firm’s Marine Power Operations business, in Sinfin Lane. The charges centre on the management of risk of exposure to employees of ionising radiation from radioactive sources used in industrial radiography.

HSE specialist inspector David Orr, on behalf of the joint investigation team, said: “Having concluded our joint investigation with the Environment Agency into the incident we have decided there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to bring criminal proceedings in this case.

HSE and the Environment Agency will be charging Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations Ltd under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999.”

The case is due to be heard at Derby Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Rolls-Royce-facing-legal-action-alleged-safety/story-20550563-detail/story.html#ixzz2sNXeLsBG

Rolls-Royce Expands Nuclear Operations With US Buyout

Plant Operation

8 Jan 2013 (NucNet): Rolls-Royce Holdings is expanding its nuclear energy operations with the purchase for an undisclosed sum of US engineering company PKMJ Technical Services.

The acquisition aims to accelerate growth in nuclear services, London-based Rolls-Royce said in a statement today.

Rolls-Royce already has nuclear services facilities in Williamson, New York state, and Peterborough, in Canada, and a nuclear instrumentation and control facility based in Chattanooga, Tenessee. Last year Rolls-Royce acquired R Brooks Associates, a leading specialist civil nuclear reactor services business in the US.

The company also announced last year a collaboration with Hitachi to work on new nuclear reactors in the UK. In September 2011, Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation covering nuclear energy with Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

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http://www.rolls-royce.com/nuclear/