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Radioactive Waste Storage (Sellafield)

Volume 174: debated on Wednesday 13 June 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what countries currently have contracts with. British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. for the storage of radioactive waste at Sellafield.

British Nuclear Fuels plc does not have contracts purely to store radioactive waste. BNFL has contracts to reprocess spent fuel from overseas utilities in Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Since 1976, BNFL's overseas reprocessing contracts have contained options for the return of wastes arising. The Government intend that such options should be exercised and that wastes should be returned.