§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what tonnage of spent uranium fuel elements was discharged in each of the past 10 years from (1) magnox reactors, (2) advanced gas-cooled reactors, (3) pressurised water reactors and (4) fast reactors; and what in each case were the(a) initial uranium enrichment, (b) initial plutonium content, (c) initial fissile plutonium content and (d) the spent fuel burn-up rate. [1843]
§ Mr. Battle[holding answer 2 June 1997]: Information relating to the majority of tonnage of spent nuclear fuel discharged from various reactors during the last 10 years is kept by the private sector operator (British Energy). Information as far as the public sector is concerned, in respect of Magnox Electric reactors, Calder Hall and Chapelcross (operated by BNFL) and Dounreay (operated by UKAEA), in each of the last 10 years, is not readily available in the format required and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.