§ Mr. GerrardTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what safeguards exist to ensure that civil plutonium separated in THORP will not be diverted into a military programme.
§ Mr. AitkenThe measures which the Government apply to civil reprocessed plutonium to prevent its theft, 573W sabotage or diversion are set out in the statement of Government policy on reprocessing and the operation of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield, which was made public on 4 August 1993. A copy of the statement is available in the Library of the House.