Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has had any recent discussions with the chairman of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee, following on the concern he expressed at a Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive technical seminar at Didcot, that excavations for deep underground repositories would disturb the integrity of surrounding rock strata, and allow for transmigration of radionuclides from the repository.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyMy right hon. Friend has not met the chairman of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee since the United Kingdom Nirex Ltd. seminar at Didcot.