§ Mr. Brooksasked the Minister of Technology whether he has studied the evidence of Dr. Edward Teller that fast breeder reactors are potentially dangerous, owing to the amount of plutonium required to operate them, details of which have been sent to him; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Dr. BrayDr. Teller's recent statement raises no new issues. The safety of fast reactors has been a major consideration in their development over the past fifteen years. The design of the prototype fast reactor at Dounreay is of the highest standards of safety. I am confident that commercial fast reactors based on this design will maintain the excellent safety record already established by the British nuclear power industry.