Sentences with phrase «british nuclear tests»

Another major loss is the death last Friday of Yankunytjatjara Elder Yami Lester, who was blinded as a child by British nuclear tests at Maralinga and Emu Field and played a vital role in bringing about a Royal Commission into the testing program.

Gold Cards have also finally been promised to Indigenous people present at or near Maralinga, Emu Fields or the Monte Bello Islands at the time of the British nuclear tests in the 1950s or 1960s.

As leaked prior to the budget, Indigenous Australians present or near the site of remote British nuclear tests in the 1950s and 60s will be eligible for a veteran's Gold Card covering most of their health costs.

Britain has agreed to pay for part of the cleanup of Maralinga, the site in South Australia where British nuclear tests were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed an investigation into the effects of British nuclear tests on the descendants of the servicemen who conducted them.

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LONDON — Nine Royal Navy sailors have been kicked off a British nuclear submarine after testing positive for cocaine, the Daily Mail reports.

The nuclear treaty will see the establishment of two shared research facilities, one on French and one on British soil, which will enable components of the two countries» nuclear warheads to be tested under extremes of temperature and pressure.

Despite opposition from its left wing the Labour party supported British nuclear weapons but opposed tests, and Labour Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell and shadow foreign secretary Aneurin Bevan agreed with Sandys on the importance of reducing dependence on the American deterrent.

From 12 August, British Nuclear Fuels is allowed to test the performance of its thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield using uranium and uranium compounds «derived from natural or depleted uranium».

Upon claims brough by thos atomic veterans (whether civilian or military) who participated in the British programme of testing of nuclear explosive devices between 1952 - 1958 set out in Master Particulars of Claim.