HC Deb 24 October 1986 vol 102 cc1006-7W
Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what change there has been in the number of visitors to British Nuclear Fuels' Sellafield nuclear site since May.

Mr. Goodlad

From May to September inclusive there were nearly 41,000 visitors to Sellafield. In the same period last year there were some 17,000 visitors.

Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. has asked Her Majesty's Government's permission to include public information material on its military rôle in the exhibition centre at Sellafield; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Goodlad

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 25 July at column 601.

Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Energy, pursuant to his reply of 4 June, Official Report, columns 594–95, to the hon. Member for Penrith and the Border (Mr. Maclean), if he will set out the economic and organisational effects on the reprocessing of Magnox nuclear fuel of the United Kingdom-Euratom safeguards arrangements for Sellafield; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Goodlad

As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy stated in his reply to the hon. Member for Penrith arid the Border (Mr. Maclean) of 4 June 1986 at column 594–95, the introduction of separate civil and non-civil Magnox fuel reprocessing operations will in future involve sequential rather than simultaneous procedures. British Nuclear Fuels plc will incur modest additional costs rendering escort and other assistance to Euratom inspectors.