Nuclear Industry Safety Debate

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Barry Gardiner

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Nuclear Industry Safety

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Wednesday 18th May 2011

(13 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Huhne Portrait Chris Huhne
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind invitation. We will certainly consider it, and we hope to see him in due course.

Barry Gardiner Portrait Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
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I welcome the interim report. It would appear from the flooding risk assessments in conclusion 6 and annexe G that Dr Weightman may not have taken account of recent research at Delft university on eustatic sea level drop. I urge the Secretary of State to investigate that. As for the conclusion on MOX—mixed oxide—can he tell us exactly how the plutonium fallout relates to the testing of nuclear weapons? I believe that after the second world war Japan agreed not to undertake any nuclear weapons testing.