Nuclear Waste

EDM number 1351 in 2001-02, proposed by Eddie McGrady on 21/05/2002.

That this House notes that the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate in 2000 described safety on the BNFL Sellafield site as only just tolerable; notes that the Royal Society has called for an urgent safety review of high and intermediate level waste management to take into account the possibility of extreme terrorist intervention; notes that British Energy has described reprocessing as an economic nonsense; notes that the Irish Government has called for Sellafield to be shut; notes that 1.3 million postcards were sent to the Prime Minister from the Irish public also calling for Sellafield to be shut; also notes that Norway's Prime Minister has called for an end to radioactive discharges from Sellafield; further notes that the Caribbean foreign ministers have called for an end to the transport of nuclear waste to and from Sellafield through the Caribbean Sea; recognises that the proposed establishment of a liabilities management agency represents and opportunity for the Government to rectify the problems caused by the nuclear industry over the past 50 years; and therefore calls upon the Government to bring a swift end to the reprocessing of spent nuclear waste fuel and to move speedily towards the establishment of a system of storage for spent nuclear waste fuel.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.