HC Deb 17 January 1991 vol 183 c565W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) 12 December,Official Report, column 397, he will set out the definition of civil spent nuclear fuel as used in the context of international nuclear safeguards to which he makes reference.

Mr. Heathcoat-Amory

The expression "civil spent nuclear fuel" used in my answer to the hon. Member for Bradford, South (Mr. Cryer) on 12 December 1990 at column397 referred to irradiated fuel arising from the operation of reactors in the United Kingdom civil nuclear industry and irradiated fuel from overseas, stored in the United Kingdom before reprocessing.