Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee

HC Deb 19 December 2003 vol 416 c119W

Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment she has made of the section of the Triennial Report of the nuclear safety advisory committee, issued on 9 December 2003, on the environmental hazards posed by the high level radioactive waste tanks at Sellafield. [144508]

Mr. Timms

The Nuclear Safety Advisory Committee"s Trienniel Report covers the period 1999–2001. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published detailed reports into the storage of high level radioactive waste at Sellafield. The most recent report, in HSE's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate's Newsletter of February 2003, states thatOverall, BNFL has made satisfactory progress with all the follow-on work from the February 2000 report and there are no short-term matters of significant concern".