Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Kennet (Labour). It was answered by Viscount Ullswater (Crossbench) on Tuesday, 17 July 1990.

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Untitled Oral question

Question

If in event of nuclear accident tax-payer is required to endorse liability beyond #25 million even in event of negligence, including culpable negligence, on part of operators; how figure of #25 million was originally arrived at & what it is now in real terms; if figure has been re-examined in light of Chernobyl & if liability limitation applies to whole process of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

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Secondary information

Type

Oral question

Reference

521 c855-6 

Session

1989-90

Oral question type

Lead

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Subjects

Compensation Decommissioning Accidents Liability Nuclear power stations Negligence Chernobyl

Contains statistics

Yes