HC Deb 09 March 1994 vol 239 c250W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of the 24,000 kg of plutonium in nuclear fuel rods awaiting reprocessing at Sellafield, listed on page four of his departmental press release P/94/121 of 1 March, comprising the seventh annual publication of plutonium figures, is(a) owned by foreign customers and (b) destined for reprocessing through the thermal oxide reprocessing plant; and if he will make a statement on the safeguards applied to this plutonium.

Mr. Eggar

All the material in question is subject to the terms of the United Kingdom—International Atomic Energy Agency—Euratom Safeguards agreement. The majority of it is owned by overseas customers and destined for reprocessing in THORP.