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AWE Aldermaston

AWE Aldermaston

Government run Atomic Weapons Establishment employing 4,500 staff and over 2,000 contractors, based near Reading. The facility deals with many...

Berkeley Decommissioned Nuclear Site

Berkeley was one of the UK's first nuclear power stations and has a total site area of 27 hectares covered by the nuclear site licence. The site includes Berkeley...

Chilbolton Observatory

Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research is one of the worlds most advanced meteorological radar experimental facilities, and is home to the worlds...

Corsham Computer Centre

The Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) along with RAF Rudloe Manor and the RAF Corsham, is centred around a range of sites, with ground facilities and installations giving...

Culham JET fusion

Culham Science Centre, Abingdon,Oxfordshire.

The Joint European Torus (JET), located at Culham in Oxfordshire, is the world’s largest fusion research machine....

Diamond Light Source

The Diamond Synchotron - this is not a building, but a giant machine, called a synchrotron. A synchrotron is a huge scientific machine designed to produce very...

Didcot Power Station

Didcot Power Station is located on a 300 acres (1.2 km2) site, formerly part of the Ministry of Defence Central Ordnance Depot. National Power own this site. They...

Dstl - Porton Down

‎DSTL Porton Down is one of the most sensitive and secret experimental sites in the UK. The site is based around a technology park conducting scientific and military...

Fleet Ex-MOD Control Site

Site used in the Dorset Defence Trials, run by the Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) Porton Down and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Reports of all...

GCHQ

GCHQ is one of the three UK Intelligence Agencies and a part of the UK's National Intelligence Machinery. GCHQ works in partnership with the Security Service (also...

Greenham Common

Greenham Common airfield was one of several wartime airfields in the Salisbury Plain area and was originally intended for use as an RAF Bomber Command Operational...

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is part of the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus owned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) with the Health...

International School for Security and Explosives Education (ISSEE)

Based at the UK Centre for Homeland Security - Former RAF Chilmark, Chilmark, ISSEE offers a wide range of search, security and counter terrorist training. ISSEE's...

Land Reference Centre - Blandford Camp
Lulworth Military Range

Site requisitioned during World War 2, Lulworth Military Range is 7500 acre site stretching from Wareham to Lulworth Cove. Parts of coast and roads through the range...

Pfizer Research Europe

Pfizer Research at Sandwich. This 390–acre site has 2.2 million–square–feet of facility space–the largest pharmaceutical research center outside the U.S. affiliated...

Qinetiq - Foulness Island

QinetiQ - Key defence research establishment.

Qinetiq - Hurn

Hurn Plant and Mechanical Handling Test Centre

QinetiQ - Larkhill

Defence Evaluation and Research Agency [DERA] as of July 1 2001, officially became known as QinetiQ [pronounced kinetic]. Many of the 80-plus laboratories, employing...

Qinetiq - Portland Bill

QinietiQ - Portland Bill. Compass Test Centre - operating and testing. Sea and Land Magnetic Facilities. Site owned and operated by QinetiQ. Formerly the Admiralty...

ROF Burghfield

ROF Burghfield

Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Burghfield, assembly location for British nuclear weapons.

Sutton Courtenay Proposed Incinerator