Mr John Grant: ...the tragic explosion occurred on 1st June 1974. The new plant is to be used to make caprolactam, the basic material used for the production of nylon fibres and certain engineering products, by the hydrogenation of phenol instead of by the oxidation of cyclohexane which was the process in operation when the disaster occurred. Before the new plant was built, the planning authority sought...
Bernard Braine: ...12th and 23rd May 1975—it is not difficult to see how a veritable holocaust could be created. Ninth, the report lists a miscellany of other dangers, such as an accidental release of highly toxic hydrogen fluoride from the Thurrock oil refineries which, in certain concentrations, could kill people. It speaks of the blowing up of one storage tank and metal splinters from it piercing other...
Sir Frederick Burden: ...the Government are saying now and comparing it with what the Secretary of State for Energy said in our day. He said: In the last 12 months prices have increased by 8·8 per cent. That amounts to a hydrogen bomb explosion. On that basis, this Government have been lobbing hydrogen bombs around for the past four years and they are continuing to do so. The Government have put Britain in pawn...
Mr Martin Flannery: ...people? Of course they will not. The people will struggle. The idea is being propagated that the Russians are about to attack Western Europe. Does anyone in his right mind think that with every hydrogen and atomic weapon pointing at Moscow—there are thousands of them which could blow mankind skyhigh—an attack will be launched to bring all those weapons onto Russia and destroy the...
Mr Tom Litterick: Will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House of any weapon, whether it be a hand gun or a hydrogen bomb, that does not destroy and will not continue to destroy men, women and children simply because it is used? There is no weapon that will not have that effect.
Mr John Osborn: ...on research and energy. Earlier today we were debating underground gasification and expenditure on geothermal energy. There have been debates on the various research organisations' work on hydrogen as an energy carrier. One or two items have been excluded, perhaps, such as wave power and tidal sources of energy. However, the implications are that there are many items of expenditure in...
John Prescott: ...the powers of being able to reject the budget or dismiss the Commission. Conservative Members have put down a motion to censure the Commission, but a censure motion such as that is rather like the hydrogen bomb. Everyone is reluctant to use it. When it has been used no one has scored a direct hit. Censure motions have proved to be miserable failures, and therefore the argument that they...
Dr Colin Phipps: Did the same experts give statistics about the likelihood of just one additional hydrogen bomb being dropped on people over the next 15 years, due to this process?
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Mr John Osborn: ...the autumn of 1975 and again this January to see what were the requirements of the various members. Perhaps there is other work that we could study, such as the use of tidal energy and the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. I welcome the Secretary of State's forthcoming talks with Mr. Schlesinger, because, through the International Energy Agency, it is essential that, at a high level as...
Mr Frank Allaun: Would it not be more honest to tell people that there is no effective defence against hydrogen bombs instead of sending out, as the Home Office did recently, a spate of circulars to certain county council officials? Second, would my hon. Friend like to comment on the more secret and sinister aspects of civil defence refered to in today's issue of Time Out?
Mr Neil Kinnock: ...itself to be superior in judgment and wisdom to the popular mandate and would make radical changes in the Bill. In the face of a majority vote for devolution, the Bill will be as consultative as a hydrogen bomb landing in a back garden. There is no such thing as a consultative referendum. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House may seek to dress up the referendum to make it more...
Mr Arthur Palmer: ...be content with the more minor riches which had been found and were exploitable. It is the same with nuclear fusion. The search for a nuclear method that will give abundant energy from isotopes of hydrogen without radioactive waste continues in all the advanced industrial countries, including the United Kingdom. Yet it would be foolish to neglect what I call the imperfect possible for...
Mr Julian Critchley: ...-Soviet relationship and détente. This brings us to the Government's explanation in respect of the decision to ask British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. to manufacture tritium, the radio-active insotope of hydrogen, instead of relying upon the United States for its purchase. The reason is not, I submit, the one which the Government have offered—that it saves dollars. The reason is that we are...
Mr Keith Speed: ...properties of polyurethane ceilings are substantially less than those of conventional ceilings? I think that it is common ground between us that polyurethane burning produces isocyanates and hydrogen cyanide and that these are toxic fumes not only dangerous to the inhabitants of tthe premises, of course, but a danger and hazard to fire fighters and people in neighbouring premises because...
Mr Trevor Skeet: ...a modest programme was begun in 1974 on fusion technology. Its revised 1973 programme is based primarily on reactor safety and new sources of energy and includes nuclear safety, radioactive waste, hydrogen production and development, and solar energy. If the Commission were to draft in fusion, environmental resources and service activities, the total staff required would work out at...
Malcolm Rifkind: ...whole host of legislation covering particularly dangerous spheres of employment specifically concerned with promoting safety and allowing inquiries where fatalities occur. We have, for example, the Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation) Act 1937, the Mines and Quarries Act 1954 concerned with all underground work, the Factories Act 1961 concerned with industrial and other employment, the Pipelines...
Mr Patrick Jenkin: ...cycle possibilities offer some exciting prospects. There is a lot of work to be done. It is in the area of process heat—providing heat for the steel industry, for the chemical industry, for hydrogen manufacture and a whole range of projects—where the gas temperatures that the HTR technology can produce will be of the utmost value. It is now clear that the Government's attitude to this...
Mr Frank Allaun: ...higher rate of income tax than someone with a top income. To take up the point made by the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon), vast armed forces do not provide security. A dozen hydrogen bombs delivered on our country would decimate the centres of population and the dying would envy the dead. There is no weapon that the right hon. and learned Gentleman or anyone else on...
Mr Tam Dalyell: ...the most important consideration. What research is being done on aircraft fuel for the machines of the late 1980s and 1990s? What research is being carried out into liquid hydrocarbon fuel? Liquid hydrogen has been manufactured, handled and used safety in large quantities on manned space programmes. I understand that there are great difficulties in incorporating liquid hydrogen into...