SELLAFIELD MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES

Early day motion 397, tabled 11 July 2013 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 11 members.

That this House believes that proposals to build a second mixed oxide (MOX) plant at Sellafield at a cost of up to £5 billion of taxpayers' money would be an outrageous waste of money following the lamentable failure of the first MOX plant, which had an efficiency of less than seven per cent; is convinced that continued reprocessing at Sellafield is environmentally hazardous, unnecessary and economically unsustainable; notes the continued and unremitting cost escalations at Sellafield, now running to over £70 billion and rising; and calls on the Government to replace the nuclear management partners with a competent management team, and to bring the proposed new contract for Sellafield management before Parliament for scrutiny before finalising the deal.

Signatures by party: Labour 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Liberal Democrat 2, Green 1, Independent 1.