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PREM19/1791
Home Affairs (Disposal of nuclear waste) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 323
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79 Jul 20 Fri Home Affairs: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (long-lived radioactive waste disposal) [draft statement regarding UKAEA test drillings] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Aug 15 Wed Home Affairs: MT letter to Tom King PS (publication of the report of the Expert Group on the revision of Cmnd 884: 'The control of radioactive wastes") ["...main concern is the increasing quantity of wastes in store for which there is no proven method of disposal"] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Sep 17 Mon Home Affairs: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Review of research on radioactive waste management and radioactivity in the environment") [report sent to MT "Because of the Prime Minister's interest in the whole area of nuclear power..." ] [declassified Dec 2014]
79 Sep 28 Fri Home Affairs: Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority letter to No.10 (actinide incineration in fast reactors) [response to request for advice on letter received by MT from Department of Environment regarding nuclear waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jun 25 Fri Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Secretaries of State ("Radioactive waste management: White Paper") [request for comments on the draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 12 Mon Home Affairs: Lord Trenchard letter to Tom King (radioactive waste management: White Paper) [concerns about proposed changes to management of Defence wastes] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 12 Mon Home Affairs: Wyn Roberts letter to Tom King ("Radioactive waste management: White Paper") [Roberts' & other Ministers' minor comments on the draft Paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 16 Fri Home Affairs: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Radioactive waste management White Paper: Oral statement") [outline of government policy for the future] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Jul 22 Thu Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("Statements on fish, St. David's Hospital, and radioactive waste management) ["These statements caused no surprises and a considerable amount of boredom."] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jul 28 Thu Home Affairs: Jenkin PS letter to Jopling (Sea disposal of low-level radioactive waste) [strategy for tackling trade union blockage] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Aug 2 Tue Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Jopling ("Sea disposal of low-level radioactive waste") [strategy for tackling trade union blockage] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Oct 19 Wed Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to Walker (radioactive waste management) [statement to Parliament; opposition to sea disposals; public inquiries for proposed land disposal sites; licensing of disposal installations] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 19 Mon Home Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...has revealed a serious operational weakness and has given rise to a good deal of public anxiety..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 20 Tue Home Affairs: Biffen letter to Jenkin (recent discharge of radioactive material from Sellafield) ["...a matter of very considerable public concern... should be conveyed to the House by means of an Oral statement..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 23 Fri Home Affairs: Waldegrave letter to Brian Sedgemore MP (Windscale - claim for compensation) [diseases allegedly caused by proximity to Sellafield nuclear facility] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 30 Fri Home Affairs: Jenkin letter to The Times (Sellafield nuclear facility) [radiation risk to local population] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Feb 10 Fri Home Affairs: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food letter to Cabinet Office (enquiry into the leak of information to Greenpeace concerning the dumping of radioactive waste) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mon Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT ("Nuclear issues") [Sellafield and radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jul 24 Tue Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Walker, Tom King, Younger, Jopling, Rees, Kenneth Clarke, Kenneth Baker, Ray Whitney, William Waldegrave, Wyn Roberts and others) ["Nuclear issues: Sellafield and radioactive waste disposal"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 9 Fri Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H committee next week") [nuclear waste disposal; grants for Norfolk Broads farmers; prohibition of under-strength whisky] [declassified Dec 2014]