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Nuclear Waste

Volume 170: debated on Monday 26 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much is being spent by Nirex in the current financial year on research into the safe disposal of nuclear waste; and how much money is being spent (a) in the United States and (b) Sweden on similar work in this financial year.

I understand that Nirex's estimated expenditure for this financial year on research and development work towards a deep disposal facility for low and intermediate-level radioactive waste is £13·9 million. The Department does not have any information about expenditure on such research in the United States or Sweden.