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* [[Fort Halstead]], Kent (departure planned)<ref>DSTL Press Release dated 17 June 2011 https://www.dstl.gov.uk/downloads/Dstl_Fort_Halstead.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222100118/https://www.dstl.gov.uk/downloads/Dstl_Fort_Halstead.pdf |date=22 February 2014 }}</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>

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

* Langhurst, West Sussex

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

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

* [[Sandridge]], Hertfordshire

{{Div col end}}The functions of the two former CAST sites – Sandridge and Langhurst – will be transferred to Dstl's core sites of Porton Down and Portsdown West by 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/centre-for-applied-science-and-technology-cast-becomes-part-of-dstl|title=Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) becomes part of Dstl|work=GOV.UK|access-date=4 May 2018|language=en}}</ref>

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>