HC Deb 03 December 1993 vol 233 cc761-2W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the nuclear reactors designated for inspection, and the period of inspection in each case, under the terms of the United Kingdom/Euratom/International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards agreement—Cmnd. 6730—since it came into force.

Mr. Eggar

The prototype fast reactor at Dounreay was designated and subject to joint International Atomic Energy Agency/Euratom inspections from 1980 until 1982 under the terms of the United Kingdom/Euratom/IAEA safeguards agreement.

Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the President of the Board of Trade which United Kingdom nuclear facility was the latest to be designated by the International Atomic Energy Agency for safeguards inspection under the terms of the United Kingdom/Euratom/IAEA safeguards agreement—Cmnd. 6730.

Mr. Eggar

The most recent United Kingdom nuclear facility to be designated by the IAEA for inspection, under the United Kingdom/Euratom/IAEA tripartite safeguards agreement, was the thermal oxide reprocessing plant receipt and storage pond at Sellafield; the facility was designated on 1 January 1993.