Nuclear Fuels
Trade and Industry
John Hemming (Birmingham, Yardley, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to his answer of 7 February 2006, Official Report, column 1073W, on nuclear fuels, if he will break down each of the volumes of uranium by isotope of uranium.
Malcolm Wicks (Minister for energy, Department of Trade and Industry; Croydon North, Labour)
BNFL and British Energy inform me that volumes of uranium used in their reactors, for years where figures are available, are broken down as follows:
| BNFL | British Energy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tU-235 | tU-238 | tU-235 | tU-238 | |
| 2002 | — | — | 8.4 | 258.6 |
| 2003 | 3.067 | 420.49 | 8.5 | 260.5 |
| 2004 | 2.585 | 351.904 | 6.5 | 205.5 |
| 2005 | 2.970 | 405.29 | — | — |