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Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) availability and (b) reliability of financial backers for Moorside nuclear reactor in Cumbria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) availability and (b) reliability of financial backers for Moorside nuclear reactor in Cumbria.
The availability and reliability of financial backers for the Moorside nuclear project is a commercial matter for Toshiba, who own NuGen, the developer of the Moorside site.
We continue to engage closely with NuGen, as we do for other new build developers on a range of issues relevant to delivering new nuclear projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with (a) it's Chinese counterpart and (b) representatives of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation on the Moorside nuclear reactor project in Cumbria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with (a) it's Chinese counterpart and (b) representatives of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation on the Moorside nuclear reactor project in Cumbria.
The Department has engaged with a number of parties with respect to the proposed sale of NuGen, developers of the proposed Moorside project in Cumbria. These discussions are commercially sensitive so we are unable to provide details.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether there is any statutory timescale for disposing of tetrahydofuran once it has been exposed to the atmosphere.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether there is any statutory timescale for disposing of tetrahydofuran once it has been exposed to the atmosphere.
There is no statutory timescale for disposing of the chemical once it has been exposed to the atmosphere.
To ask Her Majesty's Government in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether the chemical tetrahydrofuran was contained in a canister or canisters that showed visual evidence of crystallisation forming highly-explosive peroxides; and whether any such canisters had been opened...
To ask Her Majesty's Government in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether the chemical tetrahydrofuran was contained in a canister or canisters that showed visual evidence of crystallisation forming highly-explosive peroxides; and whether any such canisters had been opened...
The chemicals disposed of at the Sellafield Site on 21 October showed no visible evidence of crystallisation. The containers had been opened previously.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether there was, or whether there has been at any time, a possible risk to radiological inventory in the surrounding laboratories.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the disposal of chemicals from a laboratory on the Sellafield Site on 21 October, whether there was, or whether there has been at any time, a possible risk to radiological inventory in the surrounding laboratories.
The chemicals disposed of on 21 October had been kept within one room of a laboratory facility at Sellafield. This room and the surrounding rooms are not bulk storage areas for radiological inventory, but can contain residues of material.
It is Sellafield Ltd’s assessment that, in the unlikely event of an adverse chemical reaction, the effect would have been contained within the building envelope. At no time was a release of radioactivity from the site credible.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to secure funding for the development of a nuclear plant at Moorside in Cumbria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to secure funding for the development of a nuclear plant at Moorside in Cumbria.
Toshiba is seeking to sell NuGen, the developer of the proposed Moorside nuclear plant, in a private commercial transaction. We engage regularly with developers on a range of topics, including financing, though the details of these discussions are commercially confidential.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the (a) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, (b) Sellafield Ltd and (c) trade unions on the pay dispute at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the (a) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, (b) Sellafield Ltd and (c) trade unions on the pay dispute at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site.
The Sellafield pay dispute is a matter to be resolved between the management at Sellafield Limited and its workforce. Officials are in daily contact with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in respect of this issue, but there have been no direct discussions with the other two parties.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers of his Department and (c) Departmental officials have had with members of the management at Sellafield Ltd in West Cumbria in the last 18 months on industrial relations at Sellafield.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers of his Department and (c) Departmental officials have had with members of the management at Sellafield Ltd in West Cumbria in the last 18 months on industrial relations at Sellafield.
Sellafield industrial relations, including the current discussions on pay, are a matter to be resolved between the management at Sellafield Limited and its workforce. No meetings have taken place between the Sellafield management and Departmental Ministers on the matter of industrial relations in the last 18 months. Departmental officials engage with key stakeholders when developing policy proposals, and industrial relations have been a raised at meetings with the management of Sellafield Limited over the last 18 months, particularly whilst negotiating pension reform proposals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support a resolution to the pay dispute at Sellafield Ltd in West Cumbria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support a resolution to the pay dispute at Sellafield Ltd in West Cumbria.
The pay dispute on the Sellafield site is a matter to be resolved between the management at Sellafield Limited and its workforce. Officials are in daily contact with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in respect of this issue.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what digital format (a) has previously been used and (b) is currently in use to store data on the Sellafield nuclear waste plant; and what estimate he has made of the length of time each of those formats...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what digital format (a) has previously been used and (b) is currently in use to store data on the Sellafield nuclear waste plant; and what estimate he has made of the length of time each of those formats...
For security purposes, the Department does not publicly confirm what specific systems are being used across the sector.