Nuclear Fuels
Trade and Industry
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what nuclear fuels have been consumed in the UK in each of the last three years; and how many tonnes of each type of fuel were consumed in each of those years.
Malcolm Wicks (Minister for energy, Department of Trade and Industry; Croydon North, Labour)
British Nuclear Fuel and British Energy have informed me that their generating reactors have used the following volumes of Uranium over the last three-year period for which figures are available:
| Tonnes uranium | |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 423.557 |
| 2004 | 354.489 |
| 2005 | 408.260 |
| Tonne uranium | |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 267 |
| 2003 | 269 |
| 2004 | 212 |