HC Deb 23 February 1966 vol 725 c121W
Mr. Awdry

asked the Minister of Technology if he will list the additional research facilities which would have been required at Windscale and Chapelcross to support the prototype reactor if it had been built at either Windscale or Chapelcross.

Mr. Marsh

Chapelcross would have required post-irradiation examination facilities, additions to analytical laboratories, and further health and safety facilities. Moreover, there would also have been a need for additional water cooling works. Windscale is to have the fast reactor fuel production plant; to put the reactor there as well would have overcrowded a site which is already very intensively developed.