A serious nuclear incident took place at Britain’s Trident submarine base in Scotland earlier this year, it has emerged.
There was a Category A event at HMNB Clyde on Gare Loch in Faslane between January and April.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) defines a Category A incident as the most serious and those which carry an ‘actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment’.
But the government department has insisted the incident at HMNB Clyde did not pose a risk to the public or result in any radiological impact to the environment.
The naval base is the Royal Navy's headquarters in Scotland and is home to Britain's nuclear submarines which includes the Vanguard vessels armed with Trident missiles.
