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Nuclear Tests Using British Civil Plutonium

EDM number 1476 in 1993-94, proposed by Llew Smith on 07/07/1994.

That this House welcomes the admission by the United States Energy Secretary, Hazel O'Leary, that a nuclear warhead test explosion carried out in 1962 used reactor grade plutonium originating from United Kingdom magnox reactors, exported to the United States of America under the 1958 US/UK Mutual Defense Agreement on atomic energy matters; notes that British origin plutonium was used because United States public law (97-415) prohibited the military use of plutonium produced in commercial reactors; believes the admission that nuclear warheads can be made to explode using civil reactor grade plutonium demonstrates the sheer stupidity of, and risks posed, by separating and exporting many thousands of kilogrammes of plutonium in THORP, when a nuclear warhead can be made with only five kilogrammes of plutonium; and calls for a halt in the further reprocessing of plutonium at Sellafield and any future plutonium exports.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Llew Smith07/07/1994Blaenau GwentProposed
Ken Livingstone07/07/1994Brent EastSigned
Jeremy Corbyn07/07/1994Islington NorthSigned
Harry Barnes07/07/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Benn07/07/1994ChesterfieldSigned
Alan Wynne Williams07/07/1994CarmarthenSigned
Dennis Skinner11/07/1994BolsoverSigned
Peter Hardy12/07/1994WentworthSigned
Lynne Jones12/07/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eddie Loyden12/07/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
David Clelland12/07/1994Tyne BridgeSigned
Harry Cohen12/07/1994LeytonSigned
Eric Illsley13/07/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Tony Banks13/07/1994Newham North WestSigned
Bill Michie13/07/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Colin Pickthall13/07/1994West LancashireSigned
Alice Mahon14/07/1994HalifaxSigned
Richard Burden14/07/1994Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Bill Etherington14/07/1994Sunderland NorthSigned
Paul Flynn14/07/1994Newport WestSigned
Win Griffiths15/07/1994BridgendSigned
Simon Hughes18/07/1994Southwark and BermondseySigned
Anne Campbell18/07/1994CambridgeSigned
Nick Ainger18/07/1994PembrokeSigned
Jack Thompson19/07/1994WansbeckSigned
John Heppell21/07/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Audrey Wise21/07/1994PrestonSigned

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