HC Deb 06 May 1988 vol 132 cc651-2W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy how much money the Central Electricity Generating Board has received since May 1979 for the leasing of plutonium to (a) the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, at Dounreay, (b) the Kernforschungzentrum, at Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany and (c) the Eidgenossisches Institut fur Reaktorforschung at Wurlingen, Switzerland; and what safeguards arrangements cover these leases.

Mr. Michael Spicer

The sums of money received by the CEGB for leasing plutonium are commercially confidential. Plutonium under lease from the CEGB to the UKAEA is subject to Euratom safeguards and the terms of the UK/Euratom/IAEA safeguards agreement. At present the CEGB has no plutonium under lease to the Kernforschungzentrum, at Karlsruhe or the Eidgenossisches Institut Fir Reaktoforschung at Wurlingen.