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The Atomic Energy Rescaren Betabikarment at Harwell Started in 1940, and has deve- Impert
world famous "atome uteve, sily." On the site f a wartime would it has buil mp4 exampachersive restarch anggarkan Lam), which already in rludes mox re caveh reactors with three meae ile; construction
bas muiny uther nucleur Cezepten instrumenÉM, including a synchro-cyclotron. two Van de Chant uenines, a linear ne- celerator, and the first inborulary in the world to be designed en pecially for work with radio- active materials
Harwell's matury objects are To cary rul base resourel retu all speeds of nuclear energy, to pres the unbornadian for design of perfuel fugla kes and power and to produce fudio- melave kotopes which are export- vd all over the world for use
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Britain's falder Hall, the first large-scale atomic power. stallo in the world, will be opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 1 an October 17. 1958.
Built in just over three years, the Calder ilali atation unes slomle energy to produce electricity for homes and fac. torie in Britain.
1965.
Britain plans to have at least 16 atomic power stations by
Picture shows:The turbine room of the station.
Springfields Processes Uranium Ore
the
uranium
When arrives in the United King- dorm as an ore or
sent to the
unud. rlaken research into the use │trate
it
prochicks puulatly Springfields factory.
1. atomic waste, and wilt artwise andasiry on the use purposes for which there can be employed
erluste-
concen-
The operations carierei
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thers to produce uranium melai むすば! ire divided broadly Inta
Three singfors firal there is sterilisa-re-crushing
multiple
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the most dramalle thing in the whole production procEŠI,
NEW INDUSTRIES OF THE ATOMIC AGE
HK Exhibition THE opening, on October 17, by Her Majesty The Queen of the world's first large-scale atomic power station, will be a landmark in our new Elizabethan age.
to
The Unitat Kingdom Trade Comintaalster Is bolding an exhibition mark the gocasion of the openir of Calder Hall by Her Majesty The Queen,
By the courtesy of the British Council it will be held in their reading room the Int floor of Gloustier Building from Oolober 17 to 19 inclusive.
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This tow Power Rtation- For the control of these new Calder Hall-Is a uymbol of the splentif and engineering zurecks of Britaby's esearch ante, n vast range of special
Industrial
Instruments fins bedn complex built rienting up sluge the war to develop the developed. uses of atonie Caergy,
and
Most of Britain's well-known
They Research Establishment scene instrument makers aro of the United Kingdom Atomic already acilyo in this now fela, Energy Authority at Harwell has produced the technical
drin Calder Hali
UK Yard Build which has mate
Tug For West Africa
Yarrow and Company of Glas- How are to bulld a motor tug and eight barges for operation
on the Niger and Benne h West Africa by the Africa Company.
rivers United
The tun will be 105 ft. long and will be designed to push
the eight barges in an articulated train. Ruston-Paxman diesels will drive her twin screwB.
The train of barges will have a total length of 030 ft. and will carry 3,500 tons of cargo.
COLOMBO PLAN
EQUIPMENT
possible.
uf
The Key establishment Che Authority planned The engineering of Caldor Hug aud supervised its construction vonjunction with the pentru tors who are building it.
Haley
bad
Britain's three --Springfluids, Capenhurst
In
already built atonile factories Windscute and
50 it is that Calder Hall is only the oulward symbol of an Immense new industry develop- ing in the world in which wę live.
be.
The particular syslom chosen for Calder Hall for utilisin some of the energy locked up in
the atom, is but one of several methods already tieved to be practicable.
Indeed, we have only leafed over the first few pages of the calendar of the atomic era into which the world is currently
At Springfields, the uranium ontering, ore is refined and eventually cast Into uranium metal, tho fun used in the atomie furnaces
at Colder MI).
At Windscnle, the spent fuel is processed and the extremely valuable residues are recovered.
Calder Ruff is next door to Windscnle, and Windscale's two 400rt high chimneys dominate
the landscape in most pictures
taken of the new power station.
Capenhurst produces uranium
sultable for enriching atomic reactor fuel,
Windscale
Recovers Byproducts
The Windscale factory, next door to Calder Hall, spent houses Britain's first two When the uranium MUEN billets have been formed in the
atomic production piles mould the next stage is
So much for the Government and also tha chemical Convert them into catridges for
sphere of the new
plant for separating the use as fucl elements in atomic
Industry pilt. Tu do this, the billets are
artificial metal plutonium formed into rods which are then
Four Industrial complexes from uranium. machined to size, put into metal | United Kingdom Government. have also been established In cans and scaled.
of Britain, each of which alone is Re. capable of contracting to build a complete atomic power station.
After sealing. the caus
Under the Colombo P selenitic workshop and training operated equipment costing £55,000 la being nude available,
by the
for the Ceylon Institute
industrial ure Scientific and
The ser hon of plsarmaevalles, yukousa. purification process leading to com et rabber and production of ammonium diurncate; then the subjected to a variety of tests warch.
diuranale plaustin with new properties.
converted to to ensure that they will with- Pranium tetrafluoride
The stand pile
of condition,
the Provided free of cost,
Besides power This work is being under tetrafluoride is reduced to meful in this way have the uraniu apparatus,
plent; thally the temperature without leaking. equipment includes pilot plant organisations by the Technological Treudiation
laboratory instru-constructing troup. which will have
billets by mixing Headparters
Grove Air-
calcium ond Bring 要 In Meld, seven miles from Hanwell, mould. This latter process
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clothing. atomie re- 12-second
con.
MATCH
TUM, JAX
riven 411 search scientist a
margin safely Laminated. can be stripped DH 131 three secunda by putting a ripcord. Scientists
the uranium refinery in the north of England work anth A special chemical, ane splash of which could be tatal, or could cause serious disfiguration. This clothing, with its transparent eth protection for serbada.
visor.
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GOING TO
SCHOOL AT
HARWELL
Already many scientists from all over the world have received training at Harwell.
(pr
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schools otte
ching the techniques of
Thaisateuret Factionefive isotoper
and one Fretraiting nucleay
et gments 101
the methods
buikdog stomie pries.
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Po Burles Sebiol (opened In September, 1054) ovegen 16 course o ošte ninety lectures, Pulline a bisste Cintak
for thirty Reacton Technology
tures 1 at
a time
CUNYCH Last three
two feclares
with
FERDINAND
NANCY
and comprise one or mornings in the
dis- practical work of
All
THERE'S SPIKE
in
cussion in the afternoo1}, Decepled students are of degree standardi.
particularly
mathematics.
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and
The Isotope School has been
existence
gher 1951 gives instruction, for about ព time, to graduates the pro- perties of oiloaelive materials, incnsuring Instruments and Baboratory techniques used with Indiosetive trotopes.
Five hundred
[wenly students, including 230 from 33 overzeas' countries, have pašsori through the slope School to
· date,
nud
Furthermore 150
have nitended special courses health physics, electronic in- zirumentation And nuleradio- graphy.
Also Harwell there nre 6cvernl Lypty อ Repolor Simulators which are used In the Rencior School courses and for research. These sunulators are electronic devices which pro replicas of the control desk of reactor and reproduce the behaviour of reactor whilst cre being started up or operated,
YES, MASTER.
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stations, these are capable of
other major works related to industry, such atomie réearch reactors,
with metul fuel elements been pro-menia, workshop machinery and engineering
duced for Calder Hall atomic tools and physical testing is power station.
measuring apparatus.
THE JONES BOY RISES ON THE BEAM FROM THE RING--TOWARD
THE CEILING --
!?
--WHERE A TRAP DOOR --OPENS-
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MANDRAKE SAID---
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By Ernie Bushmiller
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ARE YOU
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MISS HAWKES SNAPPED UP
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BUT YOU FORGOT
ONE THING, MR.
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PLANE!
YE-AH, SOUP! SHE CANT | PROVE IT, BUT~WE BETTER
NOT RISK IT TAKE A POWDER / SHE'LL BE HERE ANY MINUTEL
By Mik
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By Frank, Robbins
AND AS SOUP LEAVES THE OFFICE ***
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IT, MISTERASE
IT'S UGLY BOYA? THE ONE WHO TRIED
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and the
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San Miguel
Unlike the new power station however all the heat from these atomle plies is wasted,
The reacting core is cooled by blowing air through fans driven power motors,
by 8,000
11. using horse,
After passing through the reacting core, the cooling
la discharged through
pir sphero
which
These
while
atmo- chimneys
Bro over 400, ft. high. are the two tall thick chimneys to be seen in
most pictures of Calder Hall,
VERY HEAVY
con-
The Windscale reactors are very heavy engineering struction jobs, the total weight falling on the foundations of the plle amounts to $2,000 tons, Work on them was started in 1947 and in spite of the vast size, they were completed und in operation by 1951.
The
Tum which is formed in the atomic reactor,
and will be a by product Calder Hali furnaces, has to be extracted by chemical processing and the design and construction of the plants in which this is done presented great difculties,
In order to achieve high efficiency, a solvent Extraction process of an entirely novej character was adopted.
COVER PINHEAD
That process was worked out by Dr Spence, who is now the head of the Chemical Division nt. Harwell, in the laboratories
at Chalk River in Canada. work was done nailligramenca
His op only 20
plutonium about as much as would cover
a pinhead,
AL
there was bullding a pilot
от
no time
(or
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technical plant before tho. design work started, full senle construction NVTH commenced on a primary separation plant which was very large and cost several million pounds, on the basis only of Dr Spenco's research carried out on so small. 2. quantity of plutonium,
It a
great tribute to the Foundress of his work and of the first class skilled engineers who sealed up to design this Immense plant, that it went into operation quila smoothly and with high chicloney and st increasing output OVIE
on. since,
The plutonium extracted from this plant baking through a purification process and is then. converted Info ingots of metal.
PURIFICATION
The uranium is also separatod in the primary, separatidri) plant. and after having past through
purification proce
returned to the Springfield" factory where it is adde once more kato fuel elérnem for use all aver. #galtı [„reactors"
It is in the WE that the Calder be proc