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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.

PREMISES TO LET ISLAND

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MUSICAL

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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.

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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:

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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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