§ Mr. Campbell-Savoursasked the Secretary of State for Energy if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Workington of 12 February, Official Report, column 316, on plutonium, he will publish separate tables of plutonium produced each year from Hinckley Point A in the periods (a) 1965 to 1969 inclusive and (b) 1970 to 1979 inclusive; where this plutonium is currently stored or put to further use; and what proportion of the total civil origin Central Electricity Generating Board magnox plutonium produced in the respective periods listed this constitutes.
§ Mr. GoodladInformation about the plutonium produced in the United Kingdom generating boards' magnox reactors before 1971 cannot be disclosed for the reason given at footnote(g) to my reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Thomas) on 21 July 1986, at columns 10–11.
The CEGB informed the Sizewell B public inquiry that because of the cost and effort which would be involved, it could not provide information on the plutonium content of fuel dispatches from magnox reactors for the period 1971 to 1977. The enquiry was given such information for the years 1978–79 to 1983–84 (CND/S/57).
On storage and use of plutonium I refer the hon. Member to the Prime Minister's answers of 15 and 18 April to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) at columns 330 and 525 respectively, and to the answer of 21 July 1986 referred to above.