Nuclear Structure Facility (Hansard, 5 July 1991)

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what alternative provision will be made to replace postgraduate access to the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury for degree purposes.

§ Mr. Alan Howarth
Postgraduate students will have access to the nuclear structure facility until its closure in 1992–93. The Science and Engineering Research Council is currently reviewing how research and training in nuclear structurer physics should be pursued beyond this period.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what will be the anticipated cost of redundancy as a result of the closure of the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury;
(2) what are the total estimated costs of the closure of the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury.

§ Mr. Alan Howarth
The SERC's current estimate of the cost of decommissioning and dismantling the nuclear structure facility is £2 million. In addition, there will be the costs of some redundancies which will not be known until nearer the anticipated date of closure in 1992–93.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the cost of the manpower involved in constructing the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury.

§ Mr. Alan Howarth
The element of manpower in the construction costs is not separately available and could be obtained by the Science and Engineering Research Council only at disproportionate cost.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science between what dates the LINAC facility is planned to be used within the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury.

§ Mr. Alan Howarth
No dates have been set by the Science and Engineering Research Council for the operation of the LINAC at its nuclear structure facility.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total cost at current prices of constructing the nuclear structure facility and its subsequent enhancements.
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§ Mr. Alan Howarth
I refer my hon. Friend to the replies that I gave him on 25 June 1991,Official Report, columns 39–40.

§ Mr. Butler
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are SERC's plans for the linear accelerator at the nuclear structure facility at Daresbury laboratory in the light of the proposed closure of the laboratory.

§ Mr. Alan Howarth
I understand that no final decision has yet been taken by the SERC on the future of the LINAC accelerator.