Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy if his Department's research programme or that sponsored by his Department through the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, into decommissioning of nuclear plants, has taken into account the implications of bacteriological contamination of nuclear reactor cores and radioactively contaminated pipework.
§ Mr. Michael SpicerThe United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's programme of research into reactor decommissioning relates primarily to gas cooled reactors where problems of bacteriological contamination are not expected to occur. Such contamination would be taken fully into account were it to become a relevant issue.