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MINISTERS have boosted spending on Britain's top-secret nuclear research base to almost half a billion pounds a year as they examine plans to introduce a new generation of "mini-nukes" to replace Trident.
The budget of the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has been increased by GBP 130m to GBP 493m in a single year, in the biggest outlay of cash on the facility for several decades.See the full content of this document
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Ministers Spend Gbp 500m Planning New 'Mini-Nukes'
The government has also confirmed that it wants to boost the number of specialist scientists working at the Reading facility by more than a third over the next three years.
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