Earl Attlee
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(9 years, 4 months ago)
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Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
My Lords, the noble Viscount is right on the need for a decision on this. We are expecting at the year end to have the options put in front of us by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and then move to a decision. He will be aware that even when a decision is made, there will be a massive stock of plutonium at Sellafield for many decades ahead.
Earl Attlee (Con)
My Lords, what progress has been made in establishing a deep geological depository for radioactive waste, as recommended by your Lordships’ Select Committee in 1999, and as broadly approved by the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management that was initiated by the party opposite?
Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
My noble friend should be aware that we anticipate that a decision will be made on that in the relatively near future and that work will begin in 2017.