I refer the Deputy to my response to Parliamentary Question No. 77 on 10 November 1998. The position remains unchanged.
I should add that there will be an opportunity to consider general safety of British nuclear stations under the peer review process of the International Atomic Energy Agency's convention on nuclear safety. The objective of the convention is to promote a high level of nuclear safety world-wide and to ensure that all land based civil nuclear installations are safe and well regulated.
The first peer review under the convention is due to take place in April next year and the UK and other contracting parties which operate nuclear installations will have to demonstrate that they are complying with the internationally agreed safety requirements of the convention.