Paul Flynn
Labour, Newport West
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what representations his Department has received on the radiological effect on local populations of the opening up of intermediate level radioactive waste storage vaults at Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in preparation for decommissioning the Magnox waste storage facilities.
Michael Fallon
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
Vaults were constructed at Hinkley Point in 1963 and 1983 to store intermediate level waste. They were not designed with long-term storage in mind. In order to aid future decommissioning, the waste needs to be retrieved, conditioned and. transferred to a new facility to enable continued safe and secure interim storage pending construction of a geological disposal facility.
The NDA has recently received representations on this topic from Parents Concerned About Hinkley, which were also copied to the Department.
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