Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2015 to Question 418, whether her Department received a paper on options for plutonium disposition from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in April 2015.

DECC requested the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to undertake further work to better understand the various options for plutonium disposition. The NDA have kept DECC officials up to date with their progress as they work to finalise their report which we expect to be delivered to us later this year.

NDA intend to publish a public position paper in due course summarising the outcome of the latest phase of work.