§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement regarding the discovery of broken rods in Trawsfynydd nuclear power station's reactor 2.
§ Mr. EggarNuclear Electric discovered in 1992, during routine inspection work of reactor 2's core restraint system, that two tie rods had failed. A similar inspection of reactor 1 revealed no failures. The company subsequently 55W carried out a structural analysis of the reactors' core restraint systems. This is currently being evaluated by the Health and Safety Executive's nuclear installations inspectorate as part of its assessment of the case for the return to service of the Trawsfynydd reactors.