Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the quantity of nuclear material in Scotland that will be transported to Sellafield during this Parliament.

The information requested is contained within the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) “Exotic Fuels and Nuclear Materials Dounreay Preferred Options (Gate B)” paper, which was published in February 2013. This can be found at:

http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-and-nuclear-materials-dounreay-prefered-options-february-2013/.

Material from the Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor is being transferred to Sellafield for management alongside spent Magnox fuel, and those transfers are around 25% complete. The reference strategy for this is reprocessing. Further details can be found in the NDA’s “Exotic Fuels: Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) Breeder Credible and Preferred Options” paper, which was published in July 2011. This can be found at:

http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-dounreay-fast-reactor-dfr-breeder-credible-and-preferred-options-july-2011/ .