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Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment

From Graces Guide
1959. Zero Energy Reactor Hall, Service Buildings and Apprentices School.
1959. Diagram of Zenith, General Electric Co
1959. Top of Core of Zenith Reactor.
1959. Exponential Experiments on the Zenith Core.
1961. Graphite block being uploaded from the "Scorpio II".
1961. Fission counter being inserted into the "Zenith" core.
1961. Aerial view of Winfrith.
1963. SGHW.

Winfrith Newburgh, near Dorchester Dorset.

1959 The first reactor to be commissioned at Winfrith was the "zero-energy" high temperature reactor, Zenith

Winfrith was also the site of the prototype Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor and the Dragon high temperature reactor


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfrith
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