HC Deb 19 July 1991 vol 195 c321W
Mr. Frank Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what volumes of low-level radioactive wastes will be created in the reprocessing of foreign spent nuclear fuel already contracted to be processed in the British Nuclear Fuel Ltd. thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

British Nuclear Fuels plc estimates that some 36,000 cu m of conditioned low-level radioactive waste will arise from the reprocessing of overseas spent nuclear fuel currently contracted to be reprocessed in the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield.