May 2007 – September 2008
Here are excerpts from the Minutes of the meetings of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee which relate to the firings at at the Kirkcudbright Range, near Dundrennan, Dumfries and Galloway.
An introduction to these Minutes is here.
Acronyms:
KTA, Kirkcudbright Training Area, Ministry of Defence (MOD)
DERA, The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, established in April 1991 as part of the MOD. In July 2001, DERA was split into two organisations:
QinetiQ, a privatised commercial company, and
DSTL, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (MOD)
RO, Royal Ordnance
BNFL, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
EA, Environment Agency
SEPA, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
DTEO, Defence Test and Evaluation Organisation (MOD)
PLSD, Protection and Life Sciences Division (MOD)
CDA, Centre for Defence Analysis (MOD)
D SEF Pol, Directorate of Safety, Environmental and Fire Policy (MOD)
DG(Nuc), Director General (Nuclear) (MOD)
DUWG, Depleted Uranium Working Group (MOD)
Excerpts from Minutes of the 46th Meeting of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee (DUFERC) on 9 May 2007
(Redacted name) stated that there is still a marine survey continuing at 17 points. If you are going to fire again, it is not a good time to change sampling … Dumfries and Galloway Councils – They have been informed that low levels of DU were found during a survey.
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Excerpts from Minutes of the 47th Meeting of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee (DUFERC) on 29 August 2007
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Excerpts from Minutes of the 48th Meeting of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee (DUFERC) on 24 January 2008
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Excerpts from Minutes of the 49th Meeting of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee (DUFERC) on 15 May 2008
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Excerpts from Minutes of the 50th Meeting of the Depleted Uranium Firing Environmental Review Committee (DUFERC) on 24 September 2008
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