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==Locations==

Current sites include:

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* [[Alverstoke]], Hampshire (as a tenant of the [[Institute of Naval Medicine]])

* [[Fort Halstead]], Kent (departure planned) since 2011,<ref>DSTL{{Cite Pressweb Release|last= dated|first= 17|title=Fort JuneHalstead's 2011Dstl https://www.dstl.gov.uk/downloads/Dstl_Fort_Halstead.pdfresearch laboratory to close {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100118/https://www.dstlbbc.govco.uk/downloadsnews/Dstl_Fort_Halstead.pdfuk-england-kent-13814693 |website=BBC News: Kent |date=2217 FebruaryJune 2011 |access-date=24 2014December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Building state-of-the-art facilities at Dstl|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/building-state-of-the-art-facilities-at-dstl|website=GOV.UK|access-date=7 February 2018|date=2 March 2015}}</ref> expected to be complete in 2022)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Fort Halstead project |url=https://www.jtp.co.uk/projects/fort-halstead |website=JTP |date= |access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref>

* [[Harwell Science and Innovation Campus]], Oxfordshire

* [[Porton Down]], Wiltshire (headquarters)

* [[Portsdown Hill|Portsdown West]], Hampshire

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Sections of 150-millimetre-thick (5.9&nbsp;in) [[Low-background steel|pre-atomic steel]] plate uncontaminated with [[radionuclide]]s, recovered from [[HMS Vanguard (23)|HMS ''Vanguard'']], were used for the shielding of the [[Whole Body Counter|whole body monitor]] at the Radiobiological Research Laboratory (now Dstl) at [[Alverstoke]], [[Gosport]], Hampshire.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cowling|first=Giles|title=From Land, Sea and Air|url=http://www.defencemanagement.com/article.asp?id=200&content_name=National%20Security%20and%20Resilience&article=5132|url-status=dead|journal=Defence Management Journal|volume=31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225191422/http://www.defencemanagement.com/article.asp?id=200&content_name=National%20Security%20and%20Resilience&article=5132|archive-date=25 February 2012}}</ref>