§ Mr. Frank Cookasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list, year by year, from 1979 to the present day, how many accidents were reported at the Windscale/Sellafield nuclear establishment; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GoodladOn 26 July 1982 my right hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, Central (Mr. Moore) announced at column274 revised procedures for the more prompt reporting to Ministers of significant nuclear incidents. Since then there have been one reportable incident at Sellafield in 1982, and two each in 1983 and 1984. Under the previous criteria, which included many insignificant incidents, there were 25 incidents at Sellafield in 1979, 20
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§ Mr. Scott[pursuant to his reply, 24 March 1986]: The information requested in respect of the past three years is as follows:
in 1980 and 16 in 1981. Details of these incidents are reported in the Health and Safety Executive quarterly statements of reportable nuclear incidents, copies of which are in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list those civil servants from his Department currently involved in negotiations with the European Commission to achieve a mutually satisfactory safeguards regime for the joint civil-military material balance area at Sellafield.
§ Mr. GoodladOfficials from the safeguards office of the Department of Energy are involved in these negotiations.