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Winfrith Newburgh, near Dorchester Dorset.
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site, opened in 1958 and used for nuclear reactor research and development.[1]
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