Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

AWRE - Atomic Weapons Research Establishment

From Graces Guide
1959. Merlin Reactor Tank at the Research Laboratory, Aldermaston.
1959. Merlin Reactor and its experimental arrangements.
1959. Merlin Reactor Building.

of Aldermaston

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE), which was built on the site of a former airfield, RAF Aldermaston. Other Atomic Weapons Establishment sites could be found at ROF Burghfield, Burghfield and ROF Cardiff, Llanishen, Cardiff, the former Royal Ordnance Factories; Orford Ness and Foulness Island. The ROF Cardiff, Orford Ness and Foulness Island sites are now closed.

1954 AWRE was transferred to the newly created UKAEA.

1971 The production activities of UKAEA were transferred to the newly created British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL).


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