Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are consulting the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, in parallel with work on progressing plans for small modular reactors.
The Government has requested that consideration of managing the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste arising from decommissioning small modular reactors be included in the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management’s work programme.
The Committee is in the process of finalising its Work Programme which is expected to be published in June.