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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1957.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
AEI-THOMPSON TO BUILD FULL-SCALE
A-POWER
STATION
THE world's first nuclear power station designed primarily for the generation of electricity and owned by an electricity supply authority, is to be built for England's Central Electricity Authority by the AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Company Ltd.
The contract, valued at £36 t -C40 million, is for building a complete station on a site at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 101 the estuary of the river Seven, with und was awarded in competition
thro
other Industrin groups who tendered Fimultaneously.
300
MW. saving approximately 1 million tons of coa! each year.
Twa #an-cooled. moderated reactors employed. uranium these in
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graps,te- witi be natural
of
furl. Each renctors will be situated separate renetor
house Design of the station was suorandedl by eight heat ex prepared wholly by engineers change towers each of AICI and John
connected Thompson to the rarior vessel by a gam companies who had teamed up
following the publication of the rcul1. British Government's "Pro-
Tamme of Nuclear Power" In 1935.
They had training Britain's atomte centres have had the collaboration of and United Kingdom The regiograin, (aukchonger) tana, Be@1
Atomic offer
Energy Authority. Quluny January.
accepted
The nuclear
power U.X.
with have an output auproach- Pert
tari,
secure, leaving
Raghofs CÔNG
ok. or swop for bust
Reeves. Shampo 10. stred.
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MUSICAL
תןס ן
station
COBALT THERAPY UNIT
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In the heat the from the
ho
Stenm pro exchangers, franaterence of heat circulating gas, will Surat be piped
turbo-
will genizator home, The whole |
controlled from central control rom.
Fundamentally,
to a central
л
similar
the station Pattern to the
is of a Brith Calder Hall plant, but differs
being in
designed primarily for the production of electricity. Whilst It will produce plutonium which can De used Lo enrich naturat
uranin fuels, this is not its main object as at Calder Hall, Electrical output of the station will be about five times that of the present Calder Hall plant.
*
The ronrior weighing about
The construction of nuclear reactor in Britain producing activity cobalt emphasised received Jarge selection upan the need for specially prepared for colours and desigin, New re-designed therapy
MAYFARU MUSIC COMPANY, junt
wil
silautiva but,
equip-wo
A svetlonalised model produced by John Thompson, showing one of the resolve hotises complete with heat exchange towers, for the muclear power station to be built by the AEI-- John Thompson Nuclear Energy Company Ltd, for the Central Electricity Authority Berkely, Gloucestershire, at a cost of thirty to forty million pounds.
nt
The sectionalised portion shows, ante of the heat exchange circuits in which gas carries heat from the reactor to the heat exchanga'td were.
NEW BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS
The Brush Broadcasting Cor. Spare camera is provided sentation piration has recently put into in each studlo, whlle a base rapidly. operational use new television maintenance spore studius in West London, which has also been supplied. represent the world's most ad- Stretch" circuits vaneet design in studio tech porated in the Camera niques,
Units to give improved tion in the darker parts received picture.
Most of the electronic equip ment for these studios has been vessels. each Ripplied by
Marcuri's,
This ions includes ten 1,000
camera channels, together with Vision Mixers of an entirely new type. and considerable quantity of ancil tury equipment.
cumkuones upright QUIE Kura ment to house and apply welded together" on slie
а (1018,000 KA) will be con-
by Great reied
John Thompson Ltd. The plates forming seellons high of the vessels will be pressed and roll-formed to shape and
welding at
their Wolverhampton works me! will
uslu techniques whleh John have developed aL their restarch centre,
Whilst Radioactive roball with a half | these ressels each weigh life of over five years and pro- intich as an English-Channel ducing radiation of energy of
Steam Ship they will be so more than 1 MeV is an Cx- tremely valuable Source of
cor-anglais, the new powerful source of Timpson
radiation.
frombusters,
Dianos, žarans woodwind instruïtients including BEVIS. Baxuplotica, Klarneta.
luten, piccolas, etc., niko pureLLANE Long term payments can be stranges, Lung street, telepho 22 Ch 233.
RECOMMENDED LP SUGGESTIONS: Talbot Brus Calypsʊs, Circus Calliope Music, The Brave Bulls, Bach For Pureunion, Lord Invader Calypso, | radiation for therapy. friided Steel and, Patachou, AC- curden, de Paru Mexican Fiesta, Dukes of Dixieland, Kinsey Report, ele, D. Esses, 150 Alexandra vues, telephones 30160, 35007.
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mounted on rvelters as to allow for expansion in all directions about a fixed centre line.
John Thompson wi also handling cooling
The Orbitron, now Ju the course of construction, has been produce the fuel designed in collaboration with machines, all
the us
The
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MANUFACTURED IN:
UNITRUSEN, GERMANY mont
Gonulus
this for
Je
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a man
the medical and physical staff cireulis. the sixteen massive of the South Wales and Mon-hem exchange towers, and the mouthshire Radiotherapy Ser. thermal shielding which wi!! vice and Newton Victor, Ltd, be made up f 4 (8.7 cms)
X-ray department of steel plate.
ΟΙ Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical The gas cooling tireuits, cach Co., Ltd
Atted with valves, consist ducting The equipment consists of a
almost large enough protective container fur
to walk through without mutertul
slooping. The hent exchange providing
towers. each
built into parale housing, consist af steel pressure vessels con- oil taining Baned and plain water tube tubes with externally mounted steam drums, !!ot
from This reactor passes through the
beat
exchange vessels and super-heated steam is produced two distinct pressures for centre of the Bach heat exchanger will weigh delivery to the turbo-generators. smaller phere he Wint termed the "treatment" position, approximately 400 tons (400,000
th the essential movements in conjune-
with a treatment table, Enough space is provided for a source of 10 discs of radione Live cobalt, cach with activity up to 200 curies cylindrical source is secured in a recess at the periphery of a t protective dise which brings
the
source to the
13
The source is melor-driven K) and more than 150 miles
of lubes will be employed in the sixteen unita, "protected"
to the tretitment position and returned 10 the position by springs.
Safeguard's are incorporated
failure cover
of electrle
10
and to indleate the exact posi tion of the source,
Fuel handling machines, for placing and removing fuel
supply in any of the equipment elements in the reactors will be A beam-produced by a John Thompson department, which is concerned
precision
machinery and
defining device varies die size
and shape of the beam from rectangle or square down to a
has carried cut a large number aor
feld 2x2 em, which is Indicat- Admiralty contracts.
Constituent companies of the
el by a beam of light on the Associated Electrical Industries pallent's skin while the source Ltd. Including
Metropoliton-
remains in the protected position. Vickers and British Thomson
SMALLER
Containers to house
fission
product
Caesium
Houston will produce the
reactor equipment ond the
the turbo-generators for the station, 137 The turbine hall witl contain
cnn also be supplied mounted four Metropolitan - Vickers on a similar stand for rotational turbo-alternator sets
operating
or are therapy or alternatively at lewer steam temperature and gantry for pressure than is usual in con-
on a conventional
stationary field techniques.
catsium emits
radiation of
energy of approx 600 KeV and
ventional power stations. They
be of the horizontal, close-
Coupled. tandem compound,
as the source may not exceed mixed-pressure impulse type.
1,000 euries, the
containers Two Turbo-alternators will be smaller and much lighter than fed by each bank of eight hent the cobalt carrier
Exchangers associated with the reactors.
The molor-driven annulus rototes about a horizontal axis The two reactors are enlarged on a floor-mounted yoke and d improved versions of those In its normal position the now in operation at Calder source is 75 cm from the axis Hall. It will be possible to of the annulus.
Jond and unload the A consider able range of speeds is avall Clements while the reactors are able, all constant at any given station will be able to operate A running; therefore the setting.
continuously.
Alternatively, the annulus can
clement
fucl
control.
bo oscillated through any pre- rol atc in the full circle.
· Fuel .. Additional facilities are pro-mechanisms, switchgear, trans- vided for varying the ult of the formera and the gas circulators container itself to suit different will be produced by the British treatments.
Thomson-Houston Company. In addition to ordinary Civil engineering
work manual adjustment, hand entailed in the reactor build- wheels provide the final delicate Ings, turbine hall and once and adjustment of both the move-ancillary
buildings will be ments,
with light facilitating
beams carried out by two civil con- the accurate centring of the lesion with Balfour
tracling Arms, John Laing and
Beatly, Perpect to the axis of rotation,
who are narocinted with the A.E.I Vertical movement of the John Thompson table top is provided by a motor Energy
Nuclear this driven hydraulle mechanism,
Company for
purpose.
Studio One is equipped with four Marconi Mk. III cameras using 4 inch Image Orthicons, while Studio Two 1500 three similar cameras. An additional
comera
Bre
"Black incor Control grada- of the
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The Vision Mixing equipment
It will
is of particular interest, being of a very advanced type. Very flexible in operation it has been designed to meet all require mentis.
simplify the smooth presentation of such items
as captions
appearing over background shots, and will prove particularly valuable at the beginning and ending of productions, where such
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
AS MANDRAKE PASSES THE WRECKERS, HE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY
FERDINAND
NANCY
ARE "MY
PILLS READY?
YES--- THEY'RE
: RIGHT
HERE* ON THE COUNTER
DRUG DEPT
JOHNNY HAZARD
T-THIS IS FANTASTICE THESE PHOTOS ~ THEY'RE DEVILISHL THE UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT HAPPENED IN THE DARK, AND
I COULDN'T - SWALLOW THEM
AND OF COURSE THE HONORABLE MARRIED PELEGATE WAS RESISTING THE MOST OBVIOUS CHARMS OF THE COUNTESSI MOI
HOL
COME BACK
pre-
equipements, Marconi's are also In addition to the above
supplying six similar channels for a
camera studio at the B.B.C's Television Theatro in London, and a further four of the new Vision Mixers for use in other studios.
TRAINING TO USE MODERN
FARM MACHINERY
BY PETER GILES
AGRICULTURAL machinery manufacturers in the United Kingdom regard it as part of their service to customers to provide instruction in tho maintenance and operation of the equipment they sell.
'Service courses
The nature of this Instruction
are divided varies with the type of equip into three sections. These deal ment supplied: many of the wil ditsel and kerogeno larger firms not only offer engines; wheel tractone; and courses 10 their agents at crawler tractors,
Under tho customers; both home overschs.
and supervision of stilled Instrue- but have established tors students on the engine large and well appointed farm courses strip down and reas- mechanisation schools on semble engines and make + permanent basis,
close examination of each com~ ponent part,
One of the most Interesting things about these schools that the courses are so practical that lack of a mutual language, where it exists, seems to be no bar to progress on the part of overnen aludenir.
Practical Demonstrations Let us examine a little more closely the agricultural machin- ery schools maintained by three of the foremost tractor manu facturers in Britain--that of the David Brown Companies at Moltham, Huddersfield, York
the England;
Masecy Haris-Ferguson Organisation at
Included in the syllabus for wheeled and crewier tractors is practical
work on engines, transmisalon, hydraulic gystems, power take off and the illo
In recent months students from India, Pakistan, the Unton of South Africa, Malya; New Zealand and Thailand have been trained at the school.
The Massey-Harris-Ferguson school of farm mechanisation at Stoneleigh Abbey gives Instruc tion each year to somo 780 students from over 100 different countries.
0
The school is housed in and of the Ford hundred acres of the park which Motor Company Lid, at Bore is attached have been taken over ham House near Chelmsford, by the school for planeer opéra Essex, England,
Eh Abbey, Warwickshire, Intge country mansion. Some
Tooms, #
Tả
tional
und instruction work, Classes at Meltham are small which includes a field course, a and instruction personal,
service No workshop
# more than nine are included in combined field and sörvice any one cines, and all instruction course, and a separate mechan- must be changed courses are supplemented by
Ised course for overses pupils. Alms which show equipment in
Wide
Range Of Conditions notion in many parts of the Borthant House, headquarters world. Classes are of two main
of the Ford Motor Company kinds: service courses and opera- Llc
Lid's mechanised forming centre tional courses.
The Arst tells in Essex, is typical early 18th the student how to look after century country mansion. his machinery, the second how how contains modern lectura to use 15.
cinema, dining abd re- Opératiotal courses consist of creation rooms, and bedrooms one week's instruction on David for 20 students. Marconi television studio equip with
A very large quantity of Brown tractors and implements, Field equipment at the farm ment is in use both in Britain implements which may be used tractors and a full range of
a further week on
the attached
to the house includes all and overseas, Australia, Brazil, In conjunction with
those. The 70 acres of demon- of machinery to use with Canada, Italy,
Sweden,
Thai tractors. Students are shown them. land, USA and Venezucia
bre
how to get maximum efficiency among the countries to which out of their tractor and its Marconl's have supplied televi- engine and how to set and ad- sion studio equipment. Marconi Just the implements used. The television transmitters, also, are whole
ori is based in use in many countries besides practical demonstration in the Great Britain.
fleld.
WHY WAS HE WAVING-AND STARING AT US?
STRANGE-A
course
By Lee Falk and Phil Däytä
MAINTENANCE
MAN IN A FULL
PRESS SUIT!
READY--
THESE AREN'T YOUR PILLS --- THESE ARE RUBBER BALLS FOR THE TOY COUNTER
OH
HOWEVER, THE INJURED LADY IS WILLING TO SWEAR TO THE OPPOSITEL AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU, THE WORLD WILL BELIEVE HER AND THESE PHOTOD!
STOKIS IS THE CRUDEST BLACKMAILL WHAT DO YOU WANT OF HE?
· MONEY Z
Now!
TOMORROW
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
NWZ-20
By Frank Robbins
· HÓW HÁTVE, HR, VARAKE MY STAKE
IN THIS IS MUCH BOGEN (HARMONKYI
IN SHORTLE WANT YOU JU CALL OFF YOUR APPEARANÓR SEPORK THA
stration ground are cropped so that every tillage operation can be demonstrated for as long as possible throughout the season, The varied mature of the-soli also offers a wide range of farming conditions.
There's More than Magic in
CADBURY'S
THERE'S A, GLASS AND A HALF
OF FULL CREAM IN EVERY1⁄4IÐ BÁN
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
FROŽIN FOODS TODAY!
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calls for a
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