Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Nuclear Safety: Motion.
While I was in Sellafield I saw representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which, as the Minister knows, is an important UN agency charged with responsibility for tracking plutonium and uranium throughout the world to ensure that rogue elements and nations do not get hold of it. When I asked why they were there, I was told by BNFL that they were there because of the company's international obligations to ensure that none of the product got into the wrong hands. If the British have conceded that the International Atomic Energy Agency should be there, then surely they must concede that we have a right, as their nearest neighbour, to have our authority there to report independently to the people whenever it sees fit and to issue reports on anything that issues from the company.
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