HC Deb 05 November 1996 vol 284 cc446-7W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what arrangements have been made to ensure that contracts signed with British Nuclear Fuels plc by foreign customers for the production of mixed oxide—MOX—nuclear fuel at the Sellafield MOX plant include a stipulation that plutonium contaminated wastes arising from the MOX manufacture are returned to the country of origin of the external contract for the fuel. [2140]

Mr. Page

[holding answer 4 November 1996]: BNFL has confirmed that there will be no additional quantity of plutonium remaining in the UK as a result of contracts with foreign customers for the production of MOX nuclear fuel at the Sellafield MOX plant.