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Plutonium

Asked by Nick TimothyConservativeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 14 February 2025UIN 29118

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to increase domestic inventories of plutonium.

Answered by Michael Shanks

There are no plans to increase the quantity of plutonium in the UK. The domestic inventory of plutonium has arisen from historic reprocessing of spent fuel from the UK and overseas energy utilities under commercial agreements. Reprocessing stopped in the UK in 2022.

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