HC Deb 17 July 1986 vol 101 cc570-1W
Mr. Robin Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Energy on how many occasions nuclear materials (a) produced for, or (b) assigned to, military purposes have been transferred to civil use for each year since 1956; and if he will state whether each transfer was (i) permanent, or (ii) a loan, and, for each instance, the nuclear material involved, the chemical form it was in when it was transferred, the physical form it was in when transferred, the site it was transferred to, the purpose for which it was destined and the quantity involved in each sub-category above, respectively.

Mr. Goodlad

This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

*EEC: Percentages of total net electricity production for each energy source
Conventional thermal Nuclear Hydro Total
1984 1985 1984 1985 1984 1985 1984 1985
Europe 60.36 56.96 26.42 30.70 13.02 12.16 99.80 99.82
France 19.56 15.80 58.67 64.82 21.77 17.38 100.0 100.0
Italy 68.74 69.86 3.81 3.80 25.89 24.90 98.44 98.56
Netherlands 94.22 93.93 5.78 6.07 100.0 100.0
Belgium 46.65 37.20 50.84 60.34 2.54 2.46 100.0 100.0
Luxembourg 48.96 46.48 51.04 53.52 100.0 100.0
United Kingdom 79.86 78.16 17.89 19.37 2.25 2.47 100.0 100.0
Ireland 90.64 89.94 9.36 10.06 100.0 100.0
Denmark 99.61 99.77 0.39 0.23 100.0 100.0
Greece 87.64 89.12 12.36 10.88 100.0 100.0
Spain 51.75 50.67 19.33 22.17 28.92 27.16 100.0 100.0
Portugal 48.15 42.08 51.85 57.92 100.0 100.0
West Germany 71.49 64.40 23.62 31.09 4.89 4.51 100.0 100.0
* Total percentage does not add to 100 per cent. due to the exclusion of the geothermal production value of Italy (0.19 per cent. and 0.17 per cent. of total European net production in 1984 and 1985 respectively).