HC Deb 05 November 2003 vol 412 cc637-8W
Mr. Chaytor

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she will publish(a) guidance to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the interim conditioning, packaging and storage of radioactive waste and (b) the study on the case for extending waste substitution, referred to in the Government's First Progress Report to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Managing Radioactive Waste Safely. [134076]

Mr. Morley

The interim conditioning, packaging and storage of radioactive waste will be among the matters to be included in the plans that sites will prepare for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The appropriate regulators will be consulted on the plans. The waste substitution study is expected to be issued for consultation shortly.

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