§ Mr. Alasdair MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what quantities of tritium were discharged from Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station in each month since January 1990. [51597]
§ Mr. MacdonaldSEPA has maintained monthly records of discharges of tritium since January 1996. That information is given in the following table, in units of radioactivity discharged per month.
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Gaseous TBq Aqueous TBq January 1996 131.1 0.0000 February 1996 118.0 0.0064 March 1996 63.9 0.0000 April 1996 75.1 0.0034 May 1996 65.5 0.0057 June 1996 76.2 0.0090 July 1996 131.4 0.0000 August 1996 68.3 0.0223 September 117.9 0.0052 October 1996 48.2 0.0083 November 1996 127.6 0.1276 December 1996 100.2 0.1798 January 1997 46.6 0.0176 February 1997 47.9 0.0000 March 1997 118.1 0.0076 April 1997 82.9 0.0041 May 1997 62.6 0.0000 June 1997 49.0 0.0092 July 1997 108.7 0.0155 August 1997 119.9 0.0035
Gaseous TBq Aqueous TBq September 1997 134.8 0.0000 October 1997 111.7 0.0115 November 1997 52.9 0.0037 December 1997 95.7 0.1255 January 1998 98.7 0.1836 February 1998 67.6 0.0000 March 1998 50.4 0.0024 April 1998 78.7 0.0073 May 1998 103.9 0.0059 Prior to 1996, information on discharges from Chapelcross was published by The Scottish Office in the series of Statistical Bulletins entitled "Radioactive Waste Disposals from Nuclear Sites in Scotland". The discharge information was supplied by year, although the report was not an annual publication. Copies of the reports are available in the House Library.