HC Deb 06 July 1992 vol 211 c44W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the scope and reasons for the new regulations being introduced to replace those covering existing used core transport packages for the movement of spent irradiated submarine fuel.

Mr. Aitken

The national regulations for the road transport of radioactive materials apply equally to used core transport packages as to other loads. The revised regulations, which came into effect last year, were a result of implementation by the UK of new International Atomic Energy Authority regulations for the safe transport of radioactive material—; safety series 6.

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