Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is the current status of the joint United States and United Kingdom fast reactor research programme announced by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in 1979; what is the total amount of plutonium to date transferred(a) from the United Kingdom to the United States of America and (b) from the United States of America to the United Kingdom under this programme; and in what form this plutonium has been transported.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerThe research work under the joint United Kingdom and United States fast reactor research programme announced by the UKAEA in 1979 was successfully completed in 1987. The studies of the results are now being finalised. There have been no net transfers of plutonium (other than in gram quantities) between the United Kingdom and the United States arising from the programme.