Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the implications of the recommendations in the report, "Assessment of Candidate Reactor Technology for the New Production Reactor", by the Energy Research Advisory Board of the United States Department of Energy, released in July, for future nuclear materials exchanges under the 1958 Anglo-American mutual defence agreement on atomic energy matters, as amended.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 26 October 1988]The report's recommendations are directed to the United States Government. The MOD is not aware of any implication of the kind referred to.