HC Deb 19 May 1994 vol 243 cc572-3W
Mr. Gerrard

To 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. Aitken

The measures which the Government apply to civil reprocessed plutonium to prevent its theft, 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.

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