Nuclear Power Industry

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 9:02 pm on 17 May 1995.

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Photo of Mr Llew Smith Mr Llew Smith , Blaenau Gwent 9:02, 17 May 1995

If a privatised nuclear company decides to reprocess its spent nuclear fuel at THORP, might not the company, whose only reason for existence is to make money, be tempted to sell off plutonium to the highest bidder? Might not that nuclear sell-off lead to private proliferation? Could we learn something from the trial going on in Germany this week, involving plutonium being smuggled in from Russia purely for profit motives?