HC Deb 03 March 1997 vol 291 cc465-6W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what research his Department has conducted into the re-suspension of Caesium-137 into the environment via biological pathways following nuclear accidents(a) within and (b) outside the United Kingdom. [18108]

Mr. Gummer

A study of re-suspension of radioactive caesium at a number of sites within the United Kingdom and western Europe was undertaken for my Department following the Chernobyl accident. The report of this work, entitled "Environmental Radioactivity from Chernobyl", has been placed in the Library of the House.

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