Rolls-Royce Submarines, a subsidiary of

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, operates three sites licensed to handle nuclear material, two of which are at Raynesway in

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, and the other at Vulcan Nuclear Reactor Testing Establishment (NRTE),

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, UK. The Manufacturing Site was licensed in August 1960 and deals with processing of

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fuel and the fabrication of Rolls-Royce PWR

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cores for Royal Navy submarines such as the new . The Neptune/Radioactive Components Facility Site was licensed in November 1961 and houses the Neptune test reactor which is used to conduct experiments on reactor cores. It was created as a joint company in 1954 with the name Rolls-Royce and Associates; the associates being

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, Foster Wheeler and later

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. It changed its name on 15 January 1999 to Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations Limited and is part of the marine business of Rolls-Royce plc. It changed its name again on 1 August 2018 to Rolls-Royce Submarines Limited.

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HSE Nuclear Safety ReviewRolls-Royce History Lecture (pdf)
of Raynesway's Neptune reactor test facility on UK Secret Bases website {{UK-company-stub

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