A shipyard in northern England that builds Britain's new generation of nuclear submarines was evacuated on April 10 but the atomic safety regulator said there had been no nuclear incident.
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Ambulances and
police were on the scene at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness,
northwestern England.
"We have been made aware of an incident at
the BAE Systems site in Barrow. The incident is not related to nuclear
safety," a spokesman for the Office of Nuclear Regulation said.
"We are liaising with BAE Systems’ site
security and will continue to monitor the situation," the spokesman added.
BAE said the Devonshire Dock Complex at the site
had been closed as a precaution.
"Staff, contractors and local residents are
being kept informed," a BAE spokeswoman said.
An unidentified source told The Mail, a Barrow-in-Furness-based
publication known previously as the North-West Evening Mail, that staff had
been evacuated after a warning about a bomb on an Astute-class nuclear attack
submarine.
Barrow-in-Furness makes the new generation of four
Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines that will eventually replace the
Vanguard class vessels which form the basis of the United Kingdom's Trident
nuclear deterrent.
Dreadnought-class submarines will measure 153
metres long, with a displacement of 17,200 tonnes, and have a PWR3 nuclear
reactor.
BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and Babcock are the
main industrial partners in the GBP31-billion (US$41 billion) Dreadnought
project.
Source: NDO
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