§ 47. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on the new agreement between the Atomic Energy Authority land Aktiebolaget Atomenergi of Sweden.
§ Sir E. BoyleAs the Atomic Energy Authority announced on 16th June, they have signed a contract with the Swedish atomic energy organisation, Aktiebolaget Atomenergi, for the supply of four plutonium-enriched fuel assemblies for the Agesta reactor. The supply of this material will be subject to the safeguards provided for in the agreement concluded last February between Sweden and the United Kingdom and laid as a Command Paper today. This extends to power reactors the 1957 Agreement for Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.