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Oldbury nuclear power station (decommissioned) Latitude: 51° 38′ 56″ N 51.648889° Longitude: 2° 34′ 15″ W -2.570833° Sellafield (decommissioning) Latitude: 54° 25′ 12″ N 54.42° Longitude: 3° 30′ 0″ W -3.5° Sizewell A nuclear power station (not operating) Latitude: 52° 12′ 49″ N 52.213611°
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated a nuclear weapons programme, codenamed Tube Alloys, during the
Nuclear power in the United Kingdom generated 16.1% of the country's electricity in 2020. [1] As of August 2022, the UK has 9 operational nuclear reactors at five locations (8 advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) and one pressurised water reactor (PWR)), producing 5.9 GWe. [2]
It includes nuclear test sites, nuclear combat sites, launch sites for rockets forming part of a nuclear test, and peaceful nuclear test (PNE) sites. There are a few non-nuclear sites included, such as the Degelen Omega chemical blast sites, which are intimately involved with nuclear testing. Listed with each is an approximate location and ...
Post Location OS National Grid reference County 1st Opening 1st Closing 2nd Opening 2nd Closing ROC Post Abbots Ripton: TL191773 Huntingdonshire: Unknown 1968 ROC Post Abbotsbury: SY56028624 Dorsetshire: 1959 1968 ROC Post Aberangell: SH85381053 Montgomeryshire: 1966 1991 ROC Post Aberchirder: NJ61955635 Banffshire: 1960 1991 ROC Post Abercrave ...
Map of nuclear-armed states of the world NPT -designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan) Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel) NATO or CSTO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Belarus) States formerly possessing nuclear ...
British nuclear weapons are designed and developed by the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment. The United Kingdom has four Vanguard-class submarines armed with nuclear armed Trident missiles. The principle of operation is based on maintaining deterrent effect by always having at least one submarine at sea, and was designed during the Cold War ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... GPX (secondary coordinates) Pages in category "Nuclear bunkers in the United Kingdom"