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General Line of Department of Energy's Presentation

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you

As background to the various meetings with Mr Yaxley

will wish to be

be aware of the general line of the Department's

presentation.

The Department will be explaining the role of the various

organisations involved in nuclear emergency planning in the

UK. We shall:

demonstrate that efficient and

effective emergency plans

can be devised, and have been devised in the UK;

and

suggest what kind of infrastructure is needed for such

plans;

bring out that UK emergency plans are of course tailored

to the particular power stations in this country (AGR

and MAGNOX). Emergency plans for other systems in other

countries may be somewhat different; the UK plans do

not set out to provide a blueprint for other countries;

explain that nuclear emergency plans cannot be static

but must be constantly developing and improving. They

require regular practice and assessment;

note that we shall listen carefully to the Soviet presentation

on Chernobyl to the IAEA in Vienna in August. We shall

wish to judge if there are general or specific implications

for our Own emergency planning.

Chernobyl was however very

Western Europe, and would not

at

in

the UK.

The RMBX reactor type

different from reactors

have been licensed in

note that work on nuclear safety

IAEA, with strong support from the UK.

is developing at the

/The

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