An atomic empire: a technical history of the rise and fall of the British atomic energy programme
Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium for atomi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium for atomic weapons. In 1956, Calder Hall power station was opened by the Queen. The very next year, one of the early Windscale reactors caught fire and the world's first major nuclear accident occurred. The civil programme ran into further difficulty in the mid-1960s and as a consequence of procrastination in the decision-making process, the programme lost momentum and effectively died. No nuclear power stations have been built since Sizewell B in the late 1980s. This book presents a study of Government papers that have recently become available in the public domain. For the first time in history, the research reactor programme is presented in detail, along with a study of the decision-making by the Government, the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA), and the Central Electricity Board (CEGB). This book is aimed at both specialists in nuclear power and the interested public as a technical history on the development and ultimate failure of the British atomic energy programme |
| Beschreibung: | x, 355 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781908977410 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST
OF
ACRONYMS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
INTRODUCTION
ATOMIC
PHYSICS
PEOPLE
AND
PLACES
THE BRITISH
PRODUCTION
PILES
THE
BRITISH BOMB
THE
WINDSCALE INCIDENT
THE
FAST
REACTOR
PIPPA
AND
CALDER
HALL
CTR
AND
ZETA
RESEARCH
REACTORS
THE
MAGNOX
STATIONS
THE
SECOND
POWER
PROGRAMME:
THE
ALTERNATIVES
THE
ADVANCED GAS-COOLED
REACTOR
THE
SGHWR
DRAGON
AND
THE
HTR
ATOMIC
ENERGY
AT
SEA
FINALE
APPENDIX:
CHRONOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
V
VPIBIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
ALUENCHEY
VII
IX
1
7
21
51
75
105
139
157
181
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265
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307
321
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353
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