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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE POLICY
SUB-COMMITTEE
MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2001
Members present:
Mr David Curry, in the Chair
| Mr David Borrow | Mr David Drew
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| Mr Michael Jack | Diana Organ
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| Mr Colin Breed | Patrick Hall
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| Mr David Lepper |
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Radioactive Waste Policy: Mr Chris Murray, Managing
Director and Dr Alan Hooper, Chief Scientific Advisor, Nirex,
were examined.
Mr David Bonser, Transformation Director and Mr George
Beveridge, Director Nuclear Decommissioning and Clean up (Europe),
BNFL, were examined.
Mr Robert Armour, Director of Corporate Affairs and
Company Secretary, Mr John Luke, Head of Fuel Cycle and Liabilities,
and Mr Tony Free, Liabilities Manager, British Energy, were examined.
[Adjourned till Monday 3 December at half past four
o'clock.
MONDAY 3 DECEMBER 2001
Members present:
Mr David Curry, in the Chair
| Mr David Borrow | Mr David Lepper
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| Mr Michael Jack | Patrick Hall
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| Mr Colin Breed | Diana Organ
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Radioactive Waste Policy: Mr Stephen Tindale, Executive
Director and Mr Mark Johnston, Campaigner, Greenpeace; Mr Charles
Secrett, Executive Director, Dr Rachel Western, Nuclear Research
Officer and Mr Roger Higman, Senior Climate Campaigner, Friends
of the Earth, were examined.
Professor Judith Petts, Professor of Environmental
Risk Management, Birmingham University, was examined.
[Adjourned till Monday 17 December at half past four
o'clock.
MONDAY 17 DECEMBER 2001
Members present:
Mr David Curry, in the Chair
| Mr David Borrow | Diana Organ
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| Mr David Lepper | Mr Michael Jack
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| Mr Colin Breed |
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Radioactive Waste Policy: Professor Charles Curtis,
Chairman, Mr Fred Barker and Dr Wynne Davies, Radioactive Waste
Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC), were examined.
Rt Hon Michael Meacher, a Member of the House, Minister
of State (Environment), Mr Richard Wood, Head of the Radioactive
Substances Division, and Dr Malcolm Wakerley, Research and Technical
Support Manager, Radioactive Substances Division, Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, were examined.
[Adjourned till Monday 28 January 2002 at half past
four o'clock.
MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2002
Members present:
Mr David Curry, in the Chair
| Mr Colin Breed | Diana Organ
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| Mr David Lepper | Mr Michael Jack
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| Mr David Drew |
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Draft Report [Radioactive Waste Policy, proposed
by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the Report
be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 54 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the First Report of the Sub-committee to the Committee.
Ordered, That the Chairman
do make the Report to the Committee.
[The Sub-committee adjourned.
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