SELLAFIELD DISCHARGE AUTHORISATIONS

Early day motion 1243, tabled 23 April 1998 by Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 38 members.

That this House is deeply concerned that the full re-examination of Sellafield radioactive discharge authorisations requested within three years by the previous Government in 1993 has not yet been completed; considers that it is inappropriate for the Environment Agency to be given priority to assessing new applications for increased radioactive discharges and for a new plant to manufacture mixed oxide fuel at Sellafield; believes that as there are clear dangers of plutonium proliferation from such manufacture and as the economic advantages to Britain of reprocessing at Sellafield are increasingly questionable, such a re-examination is urgently needed; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to ensure that the Environment Agency does not determine these new applications until it has completed the overdue promised full re-examination of authorisations.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, Liberal Democrat 10, Plaid Cymru 2, Scottish National Party 2, Conservative 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.