HL Deb 29 June 1995 vol 565 c60WA
Lord Kennet

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will promote an international convention to prohibit attacks, or threats of attack, on nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes, or on any other installations attacks on which could release into the environment radioactive and other forms of fallout, including chemicals or organisms lethal or dangerous to human beings or to animal or vegetable life (that is, with effects parallel to the use of weapons of mass destruction), and if not why not.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

There are currently no plans to agree an international convention covering attacks on civil nuclear or similar plant. The responsibility to counter all threats at such facilities rests with the country in which they are located. Together with our EU and G7 partners, we are actively engaged in improving levels of safety at nuclear power plants worldwide, especially those in the former Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe. These measures include promoting enhanced levels of physical protection.