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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Mr. Alan Reid: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the (a) sites in the United Kingdom on which intermediate level nuclear waste is stored and (b) volume stored on each site. [139507] Mr. Morley: The following is a list of sites at which intermediate-level radioactive waste (ILW) is stored. The figures have been taken from the 2001 waste inventory published by Defra and Nirex in October 2002. The figures for each site are the volume of conditioned waste, in cubic metres, and, where appropriate, include the ILW estimated to arise from continued operation and decommissioning. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Waste site ILW--volume, cubic metres, conditioned Aldermaston 4,247.0 Amersham 488.0 Berkeley 2,364.0 Bradwell 4,591.0 Calder Hall 4,755.0 Capenhurst 2.0 Cardiff 423.0 Chapelcross 5,640.0 Clyde 1.0 Culham 383.0 Devonport 258.0 Donnington and Stafford 0.2 Dounreay 8,580.0 Dungeness A 4,197.0 Dungeness B 3,729.0 Hartlepool 4,114.0 Harwell 2,744.1 Heysham 1 4,307.0 Heysham 2 4,417.0 Hinkley Point A 6,015.0 Hinkley Point B 4,156.0 Hunterston A 5,428.0 Hunterston B 4,502.0 Oldbury 3,665.0 Portsmouth 9.0 Rosyth 86.0 Rosyth and Devonport (submarines) 1,928.0 Sellafield 131,547.0 Sizewell A 4,244.0 Sizewell B 595.0 Torness 4,224.0 Trawsfynydd 2,849.0 Vulcan 203.0 Windscale 4,209.0 Winfrith 1,312.0 Wylfa 6,810.0 Total 237,022.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

139507; 413 c902W;413 c901-2W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Radioactive waste Location Storage Waste management

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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