§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list each of the safeguard verification exercises that have been undertaken by international agencies in the United Kingdom since 1990, indicating those which have been adapted to assist Euratom and Russian nuclear authorities in refining safeguards applications. [35929]
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§ Mr. OppenheimSince 1990 Euratom, jointly with the International Atomic Energy Agency at certain major installations have conducted several hundred safeguards inspections at installations in the UK where nuclear material is used. Euratom verification activities in the UK during 1992 alone involved almost 2,500 days of effort on the part of Euratom personnel. All these inspections contribute to increasing Euratom's safeguards efficiency and refining its safeguards techniques.
Euratom has conducted two exercises in the UK, one at Dounreay and the other at the Sizewell A power station, with safeguards inspectors from Gosatomnadzor—GAN, the Russian nuclear regulatory body—to demonstrate the application of Euratom safeguards. Such exercises are part of a continuing programme to assist in the development of safeguards systems in Russia.