§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Energy what nuclear research is currently being undertaken at (a) Ispra in Italy and (b) Culham in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. BennOver a half of the activities at Euratom's Joint Research Centre, Ispra, are devoted to nuclear research. The largest nuclear programme there is on reactor safety; other nuclear programmes include those on the handling and disposal of radioactive wastes, technical assistance to nuclear power plant operators and a modest programme, begun in 1974, on fusion technology. Further nuclear research activities are carried out at the other establishments of the Joint Research Centre in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Details of the research undertaken at Culham—basically fusion—are given in the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Annual Report 1974–75, a copy of which is in the Library.
§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will state, from information available to him from international sources, what nuclear research is currently being undertaken in the principal 176W nuclear establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany and in France.
§ Mr. BennThese details are contained in the "Fourth Nuclear Programme 1973 to 1976 of the Federal Republic of Germany", which was published by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology in 1974, and in two publications by the French Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique—the 1974 Annual Report, and a review of the CEA's Scientific and Technological Activities in 1974. Copies of these are available in the Library.