Draft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 Debate
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
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Draft Shipments of Radioactive Substances (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
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Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con)
I echo my hon. Friend’s comments. The Minister has done a thoroughly competent job and he is well on top of the issue. It is great that we have got to the end of the series of statutory instruments on nuclear decommissioning.
The 65th report of the Public Accounts Committee, on which I sit, about the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says:
“In 2017-18, the NDA spent £2 billion on activities at Sellafield”
and—this is really serious—
“It expects operations to decommission Sellafield to continue for over 100 years at an estimated cost of £91 billion.”
What consideration is being given to building up more and more of those materials that are taking a long time to decommission at Sellafield?