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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Do you think he's mad?
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Six: Fusion
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HARCOURT
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Well, he wasn't before, but he certainly is now.
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Now, this is the report on IIF?
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HARCOURT
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It's a copy. We sent the original to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Why?
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Six: Fusion
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HARCOURT
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Because it proves that there is a hot cell at Northmoor, built in contravention of IAEA safeguards.
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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It was never under IAEA safeguards.
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HARCOURT
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The contamination in the reservoir can now be traced directly to it. They are liable to prosecution under the Radioactive Substances Act of 1960.
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MINISTER
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Is this really within your brief, Harcourt?
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Six: Fusion
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HARCOURT
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Northmoor was producing plutonium illegally, contrary to the Nuclear Installations Act of 1968, the NPT and every other international agreement. They are breaking every law in the nuclear rule book.
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Northmoor was producing very small quantities of plutonium by a secret laser process, which was classified as experimental. I knew about it, and so did a number of my colleagues.
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Six: Fusion
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HARCOURT
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You knew about it?
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MINISTER
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From day one. An experimental station with a defence component is not subject to any of the restrictions you've just quoted.
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HARCOURT
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But I don't understand, if you knew what caused the contamination, why was I brought in to investigate it?
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Because the Americans became suspicious.
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HARCOURT
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So, my involvement was purely part of a deception plan?
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Six: Fusion
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MINISTER
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Yes, if you like.
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HARCOURT
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But you must have known that I would find out what was going on in the end.
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MINISTER
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Yes, of course I did. I just thought you might take a little longer to do it, that's all, and you might have used slightly less unorthodox methods of breaching the mine than the likes of Craven and Jedburgh.
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Six: Fusion
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HARCOURT
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I will not withdraw that report.
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