To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what proportion of radioactive material produced at nuclear installations in the United Kingdom is not subject to the 1977 tripartite safeguards agreement between the United Kingdom, Euratom and the International Atomic Energy Agency in each year since 1983; and if he will publish in the Official Report details of the international export of plutonium from civil nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom to (a) European Community Countries and (b) third countries.
All uranium and plutonium produced in civil nuclear installations is subject to Euratom safeguards and to the terms of the UK/Euratom/IAEA tripartite Agreement of 6 September 1976 (IAEA INFCIRC 263) at all times.For information on exports of civil plutonium, including the recipient countries, I refer the hon. Member to the answer in
Official Report, 17 January 1989, at column 157, and to the Department's annual press releases on plutonium production, (produced since the year 1986–87), which are available in the Library of the House.