My Lords, I am not sufficiently aware of the detail of the proportions of different types of isotopes that come from the European Union—the Netherlands, France and Germany—but the 60% from the EU comes mainly through the Channel Tunnel, as I understand. The 40% from non-EU countries, comes through Heathrow in the main and is subject to the fast-track customs clearance procedure. That is absolutely necessary given the 66-hour half-life that applies to quite a proportion of these isotopes.
Nuclear Safeguards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Viscount Trenchard
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 22 February 2018.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Nuclear Safeguards Bill.
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