§ Mr. Chris Smithasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will place in the Library the assessments made by the Central Electricity Generating Board and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority that led to the rejection of the pressure-tube type nuclear reactor on safety and economic grounds.
§ Mr. GoodladComparative assessments of a pressure-tube type reactor, the SGHWR, and of other reactor types are contained in the report made in 1977 by the National Nuclear Corporation on the choice of thermal reactor systems, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. The views of the Atomic Energy Authority and of the Central Electricity Generating Board were earlier described in a note by Sir John Hill of the authority, submitted to the then Secretary of State for Energy and published by him on 6 August 1976. A copy of this note is also available in the Library of the House.