Sellafield reactors and government objectives
Spring asks about the age, safety and decommissioning of Sellafield’s Magnox reactors; O’Brien asks what progress is expected on the Government’s wider Sellafield objectives.
asked the Minister for Energy if he has requested the Nuclear Energy Board to prepare an assessment of the state of the Magnox nuclear power generation plant at Sellafield; its present age and relative standard of safety and efficiency with reference to conventional power plants; the steps, if any, which will now be taken in order to provide for its orderly and environmentally safe decommissioning, and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Comment on this
asked the Minister for Energy the progress which will be made within the next 12 months towards each of the Government's objectives of (1) closing reprocessing and power generation activities at Sellafield (2) closing Magnox nuclear reactors in the UK which are now operating beyond their design life (3) getting Britain to abandon its plans for undersea storage of intermediate waste at Sellafield and (4) getting Britain to change the location of their planned increases in nuclear capacity.
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