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Oral answer to question provided on Monday, 5 June 2006 in the House of Lords, by Lord Sainsbury of Turville (Labour).


Nuclear Waste: Storage

Answer

My Lords, we cannot tell. Equally, it may be true that in the future costs will go down if we are able to develop techniques of the kind I have just described.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Monday, 5 June 2006 by Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat).

Question
My Lords, does the Minister agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said at the weekend that the costs of disposing of nuclear waste had increased from £70 billion to £90 billion? How can we tell that this will be the last such increase we have to experience?

Secondary information

Type
Oral answer to question
Reference
682 c1043 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Radioactive waste Waste management Technology Research
Link
View this Oral answer to question on www.publications.parliament.uk