Nuclear Safety (Hansard, 20 July 1987)

§ Mr. Frank Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Energy (1) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's information programme funded by his Department provides details on the number of occasions Her Majesty's Government have invited operational safety (OSART) teams from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the United Kingdom in support of the nuclear facility safety programme;

(2) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority information programme funded by his Department provides details on the number and outcome of successful prosecutions brought against British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. for contravention of its operating licence;

(3) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority nuclear information programme provides details on the annual investment made since the programmes of construction began on both the Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactor;

(4) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the annual research and development costs of Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactor programme;

(5) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the number of occasions, with reasons, for the withdrawals from nuclear safeguards of nuclear materials covered by safeguards;

(6) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details 20W on the number of incidents reported since February 1977 in regard to each United Kingdom civil nuclear facility recorded by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate;

(7) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the sources and quantities of uranium imported for the civil nuclear programme;

(8) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the texts of the contracts presently in being between British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. and its foreign partners;

(9) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the specific uses to which all plutonium arising from the electricity board nuclear reactors has been put in the United Kingdom or abroad since the first fuel was reprocessed at Sellafield for each respective reactor;

(10) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme provides details on the number of visits and resultant reports of Euratom and the International Atomic Energy Authority safeguards inspectors who have visited all United Kingdom nuclear facilities since safeguards agreements were concluded to cover them;

(11) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme indicates whether any financial support was made available to objector groups which presented evidence to the Thorp, Windscale, Sizewell B pressurised water reactor and Dounreay EDRP public inquiries, respectively; and if he will make a statement;

(12) whether the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority public information programme will provide any previously unpublished information on civil nuclear matters relating to commercial considerations, national security or cost of provision restriction.