§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what calculation she has made of the additional resources that will be required by the national health service as a consequence of the operation of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
§ Mr. SackvilleNone. The annual risk attributable to individuals from radiation from Sellafield has been estimated as "vanishingly small". This was set out in the reply I gave the hon. Member on 11 January,Official Report, column 117. We have not attempted to quantify the costs which might occur as a result of conventional industrial accidents occurring on site; this assessment is not normally made for industrial operations at any site.
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