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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the title is of each document relating to British nuclear tests in (a) Australia, (b) Christmas Island and (c) Malden Island that has been withheld from public release at the National Archives.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

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Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

19 October 2007

For answer on

23 October 2007

Answered on

29 October 2007

In accordance with the Public Records Acts, MOD withholds from release to the public at the National Archives files that are over 30 years old, or extracts from them, if and for so long as their contents are judged to be sensitive.Currently MOD holds 45 complete file parts and 10 extracts from file parts that relate to the nuclear tests in Australia, Christmas Island and Malden Island. Lists of all the documents contained within these files could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The files titles are as follows:Files"Christmas Island""Decay rates of fallout at Operation Hurricane""Fallout distribution at Operation Hurricane""Grapple ““Z”” extracts""HMS Diana in light fallout—Op Mosaic""Maralinga and Christmas Island tests""Maralinga—contaminated waste x 2 files""Maralinga, Emu and Monte Bello x 7 files""Nuclear test series, code name Buffalo x 2 files""Operation Antler: preparation for UK nuclear weapon trials at Maralinga 1957""Operation Hurricane: preparation for United Kingdom nuclear weapon trials at Monte Bello 1952""Op Buffalo x 4 files""Operation Antler""Op Hurricane""Operation Hurricane/Tigress""Some solubility experiments on Mosaic and Grapple Fallout""Surface phenomena at Operation Hurricane""UK hydrogen bombs tests: details relating to operations ““Mosaic”” ““Buffalo”” and ““Grapple””""UK hydrogen bomb tests code name ““Grapple”” x 3 files""UK megaton weapon tests at Christmas Island, code name Grapple X x 2 files""UK tests and experiments 1952 to 1963 x 2 files""UK tests and experiments 1952-1963 x 9 files."File extracts"Atomic energy—UK trials—Antler (formerly Sapphire and Volcano)""Buffalo""Grapple ““Z”” extracts""Hydrogen bomb trials x 3 file extracts""Hydrogen bomb trials—Grapple—Grapex""Nuclear tests codename Buffalo""UK megaton weapon tests at Christmas Island, code name Grapple X x 2 file extracts."The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds on the same basis a large number of documents and files relating to nuclear tests. Their list has some 560 entries, and I will arrange for a copy of it to be placed in the Library of the House.

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

465 c977-8W; 160507

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment has been made of the potential adverse health effects of the use of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane to control flies on Christmas and Malden Islands during their use in British nuclear warhead tests.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160509; 465 c978W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department (a) was invited to attend and (b) attended the meetings on nuclear test veterans held on 15 and 16 October 2007 at the House of Commons, chaired by the hon. Members for Norwich North and Billericay.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160527; 465 c978W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information his Department holds on Fijian nationals who were present at the British nuclear tests in the Pacific.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

19 October 2007

For answer on

23 October 2007

Answered on

29 October 2007

The Ministry of Defence holds limited information on Fijian nationals who were present at the British nuclear tests in the Pacific. Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) contain four pages listing the names of Fijian nationals involved, and the tests for which they were present. No radiation doses were recorded for any Fijian national.At Operation Mosaic, which took place in 1956 at the Monte Bello Islands off the North West coast of Australia, 32 Fijians were onboard HMS Newfoundland. Two Mosaic trials were held. At the first on 16 May, HMS Newfoundland was docked at Singapore. At the second on 19 June trial, the ship was approximately 565 nautical miles (approx. 940 km) west north west of the Monte Bello Islands.Operation Grapple comprised three trials which took place in May and June of 1957 off the Maiden Island; 42 Fijians were onboard the aircraft carrier, HMS Warrior, which was the Forward Area Control Ship for the trials, and the Task Force flagship. The flagship acted as the control centre for a group of ships stationed off Maiden Island during the trials.At a later trial, Operation Grapple Y, 23 Fijians were stationed at HMS Resolution. The Grapple Y trial took place on 28 April 1958 off the south east point of Kiritimati (formerly Christmas Island). From December 1957, HMS Resolution was the name used for the group of naval personnel based onshore at Kiritimati. HMS Resolution was situated at Port London, on the north west side of the island, approximately 43 km from the point of detonation.At a subsequent series of trials, Operation Grapple Z, 16 Fijians were attached to 269 Squadron. The series comprised four nuclear detonations at the south-east point of Kiritimati, which took place in August and September 1958. The duties performed by 269 Squadron during Operation Grapple Z were reconnaissance, meteorological patrol and air-sea rescue.More widely, AWE records indicate that the 'Fijian Military Force' was under 12 Independent Field Squadron from April 1958 to February 1959; under 36 Corps Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, from February 1959 to November 1959; and under 73 (Christmas Island) Squadron, Royal Engineers, from November 1959 to April 1960.

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

160529; 465 c979W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what records his Department holds on how many (a) British service personnel, (b) medical auxiliaries, (c) UK Atomic Energy Authority personnel, (d) Atomic Weapons Research Establishment personnel and (e) others took part in the British nuclear testing programme in the Pacific and...

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2007

Reference

465 c977W; 160505

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Weapons: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what categories of records of human exposure to radiation during (a) British nuclear warhead tests and (b) plutonium dispersal tests at Maralinga are held by the Health Protection Agency.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 October 2007

Reference

160506; 465 c479W

House

House of Commons

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