Nuclear Power
Magazine
The course of the British nuclear industry can be traced by the thickness of these magazines.
The advertisements, which are a large part of the importance of any trade rag
, and some of which remain of considerable
interest, taper off considerably after the middle of 1960.
Rowse Muir sold the magazine, presumably including reprint rights, to Temple Press, publishers of the competing Nuclear
Engineering, which accordingly appeared under the title Nuclear Engineering, incorporating Nuclear Power
for some time, before taking on its current title of Nuclear Engineering International.
As the publishers of NEI do not seem to have ever exercised those reprint rights, we feel justified in reproducing here
the tables of contents and some of the editorial material.
Assistance in obtaining the 1956 issues, and the one or two wall charts we do not have, will be gratefully accepted.
Years Covered
- 1956, May and June
- 1956, July—December
- 1957, January—June
- 1957, July—December
- 1958, January—June
- 1958, July—December
- 1959, January—June
- 1959, July—December
- 1960, January—June
- 1960, July—December
- 1961, January—June
- 1961, July—December
- 1962, January—June
- 1962, July—December
- 1963, January—April
1957 — Volume 2 (first part)
1957 — Volume 2 (second part)
1958 — Volume 3 (first part)
1958 — Volume 3 (second part)
1959 — Volume 4 (first part)
1959 — Volume 4 (second part)
1960 — Volume 5 (first part)
1960 — Volume 5 (second part)
1961 — Volume 6 (first part)
1961 — Volume 6 (second part)
- July — Number 63 (122 pp)
- New UK nuclear centre
- Plans for a £1 million research centre at Oxford have been announced
- Plutonium as a reactor fuel
- Dr M.B. Waldron reviews some of the problems which have been exercising research workers all over the world for
several years and comments on current progress
- Burnout in liquid cooled reactors — 2
- Mr J.G. Collier concludes by comparing his suggested burnout mechanism with experimental results
- Pumps in atomic energy — a survey
- The pump industry’s contribution to atomic energy is analysed and tabulated
- Controlled leakage pumps
- These Pathfinder BWR recirculating pumps, described by Mr R.A. Haugen, incorporate improved shaft seal design
and can work up to 2000 lbf/in2
- Glandless heavy water pumps on the DMTR
- The use of pumps in completely closed circuits presents unusual problems.
Mr D.W. Jamieson looks back at three years’s experience
- Component testing for Hinkley Point
- Some of the larger components at this nuclear power station are being tested under simulated operating conditions
- Graphite for fuel canning
- Completely impermeable and metal–like tubes which can be shrunk–fitted on to fuel are now being
produced
- Safety and serviceability in reactor safety circuits — 2
- Dr U Broccardo now applies his theory — developed in part 1 — first to a single group of
channels and then to the whole safey system
- The direct cycle diphenyl reactor
- This design for a 20 MW graphite–moderated reactor design claims to be an advance on the OMR because
of its use of a direct conversion cycle and graphite clad fuel elements
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- Opinion : What are the plans for plutonium?
- Letters : Kahl control rods, nuclear ship delay, etc
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Plurovane boiler feed pumps at Calder Hall nuclear power station.
- August — Number 64 (114 pp)
- 7th UKAEA annual report
Another year of steady progress
— Sir Roger Makins
- Nuclear research at Berkeley
- The CEGB’s decision to set up its own nuclear research centre has led to this carefully planned
establishment, described by J.S. Burkett
- Reactor Materials and Radiation Damage Conference
- Timed for the opening of the CEGB’s Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, this four–day conference attracted
130 scientists from all over the world.
Notable contributions are summarized by Mr G.E. Darwin and Dr A.A. Johnson
- Progress at Harwell
- A more flexible approach towards new research is the outcome of major changes within the UKAERE.
Mr J.S. Burkett reviews the main areas of activity
- On–load refuelling design
- The rewards of on–load refuelling for gas–cooled reactors are too high to ignore, but there are many
engineering and operating problems.
The main design principles evolved at the UKAEA, Risley, to face these problems, are discussed by Mr K.H. Dent
- The Basic Radiation Effects Reactor
- This preliminary ANL design for a 1 MWt NaK–cooled reactor is intended to provide high energy neutron
flux with low thermal neutron and gamma background
- The safety of research reactors
- Perfect safety, even if attainable, would be too costly.
Dr J.F. Croft considers present day philosophy in problems such as the complexity of control mechanisms and the limitations
of the operator
- Boilers for Trawsfynydd
- Due to the size of these vessels and the difficult site access a substantial part of the fabrication is done on
site
- The Belgrade Convention of Nuclear Electronics
- Semiconductors, transistor circuits, analysers and data handling were among the subjects featured at the latest
IAEA conference ; from the 130 papers presented, Dr D Taylor selects those of most interest
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- Opinion : Is on–load refuelling essential?
- Letters : Nuclear ship design, US/European industrial links, etc
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Beyond Berkeley’s No.1 reactor are the new CEGB nuclear research laboratories.
- September — Number 65 (132 pp)
- The Sizewell Nuclear Power Station
- This 580 MWe power station is the latest of the descendants of Calder hall.
Designers from the English Electric, Babcock & Wilcox, Taylor Woodrow Atomic Power Group contribute to the first detailed
and authoritative description
- Optimization of the design
- Higher gas pressures with a reduction in gas circuits from six to four, and the cleanest layout yet produced,
are among the design improvements over Hinkley Point (Dr H.S. Arms)
- Control and instrumentation
- Any changes in station output are initiated directly from the source of heat generation (D Moore)
- Civil and mechanical design aspects
- Close co–ordination of civil and plant design have led to the use of a single building for both reactors
bringing with it simplification in a number of features (J.D. McKean and N.O.E. Lakin)
- Gas circuits and boilers
- Features include a new arrangement of reactor duct inlets, alloy steel boiler shells and two complete
by–pass systems in each boiler (T.B. Webb)
- Cut–away
drawing in full colour
- by
Nuclear Power
’s illustrators, headed by A.W. Hall and J Lynch
- Conventional plant design
The 325 MW turbine units will use 36 in. last blades at 3000 rev/min for the first time anywhere
in the world (C Bottrell and J Caldwell)
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- Opinion : Nuclear power costs re–appraised
- Letters : Atomic forums, French fuel fabrication, Tokai Mura test plates, etc
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Looking seawards over the raft foundation of Sizewell’s two reactors
- October — Number 66 (142 pp)
- Bradwell and Berkeley critical — picture documentary
- New developments in the welding industry
- The response of the industry to the continuous pressure caused by new materials and more severe conditions is
reviewed by Mr R.G. Burt
- Welding for nuclear power stations
- Mr F.S. Dickinson discusses recently developed processes and techniques for reactors and heat exchangers
- Welding and non destructive testing equipment survey
- The many processes and ancillary equipment now available to industry are analysed and tabulated
- The NDA steam cooled fast reactor
- This conceptual design of a UO2–PuO2 fast breeder cuts capital costs by a simple
mechanical arrangement and compact core
- Safety and serviceability in reactor safety circuits — 3
- Concluding his statistical approach to the problem of reactor and control instrumentation reliability,
Dr U Broccardo considers system optimization
- Powder metallurgy in the nuclear age
- Miuch new and useful data on ceramic and cermet type fuel materials was presented at the Fourth International
Plansee Seminar reported here by Dr J.W. Taylor
- Instrumentation for the criticality protection of chemical plants
- Reportin investigations made at Capenhurst Mr D.K. Cartwright and Mr M.J. Todd show how the use of conventional
radiation detectors aids criticality control of fissile material
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- Opinion : A new pattern for research?
- Letters : Standardized fuel elements
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Welding in the fuel charge nozzles on the bottom head of Hunterston’s reactor B pressure vessel.
- November — Number 67 (118 pp)
- The Lessons of Calder Hall
- Twenty five reactor years operating experience at Calder Hall and Chapelcross, with 85% plant utilization and at
power levels substantially above design, have confirmed the soundness of the gas–cooled reactor concept for large scale
power production
- The contribution to the civil programme
- Large scale experimental programmes on the Calder and Chapelcross reactors for measuring reactivity and stability
and testing fuel elements and b.c.d. procedures, have yielded much information of direct benefit to the design, commissioning
and operation of the civil stations (D.R.R. Fair and T.N. Marsham)
- Safety aspects of reactor operation
- With only four main incidents since start–up, all concerning conventional electrical plant operation,
experience has shown that the highest safety standards in Calder Hall and the Calder–type reactors are compatible
with high generating output (E.L. Desbruslais)
- Fuel cycles for magnox reactors
- The choice of a fuel cycle for the civil magnox reactors affects unit generating cost and althrough careful
analyses cannot yet be fully supported by sufficiently accurate data, Calder experience has already made useful contributions
(N.L Franklin, A Johnson and E Clough)
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- The NBS high flux reactor design
- The National Bureau of Standards’ 10 MW tank–type heavy water reactor, similar in design to
CP–5, will be used for the study of basic material problems
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- Opinion : Calder Hall achievements
- Letters : Beryllium’s future, Bradwell criticality, etc.
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Placing a charge basket containing 24 new fuel elements into one of the Calder Hall charge machines
- December — Number 68 (124 pp)
- The CEGB studies heat transfer
- Backed by considerable conventional plant experience, research was started in 1957 at the Central Electricity
Research Laboratories to investigate nuclear plant behaviour.
Mr J.A. Hitchcock and Mr J Lis describe the work carried out on fuel elements and heat exchangers
- The High Flux Isotope Reactor
- Now under construction at Oak Ridge, this 100 MWt beryllium reflected reactor is designed primarily to give
research quantities of elements heavier than plutonium
- Calculating escape probabilities
- Escape probabilities are used at present to calculate fast fission factors.
Mr E.W. Sidebotham describe and approximating method which saves computer time
- The Metallurgy of Beryllium Conference
- Seventy or more papers were read at this three–day Institute of Metals conference which attracted delegates
from 15 countries.
Mr G.E. Darwin reports
- Fuel cycles for magnox reactors — 2
- Dr N.L. Franklin, Mr A Johnson and Mr E Clough describe the types of fuel cycle now available for magnox reactors
- The Saturn analogue installation — 1
- In this first article Dr T.O. Jeffries and his colleagues give details of this large computing unit for nuclear
studies and disucss design philosophy
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- Opinion : The UK ship decision, The British Nuclear Energy Society
- Letters : Closed cycle gas turbines, etc.
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : Part of the heat exchanger rig at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories used to study heat
transfer and pressure drop characteristics of tube banks in cross flow.
- Industry Guide and Digest 1961, incorporating The Nuclear Power Year Book
- The Nuclear Industry in 1961
- Section 1 — World Authorities
- The British Nuclear Power Groups
- International Organizations
- National Agencies
- Section 2 — Who’s Who in British Nuclear Energy
- Biographies of the leading scientists and engineers in government and industry
- Section 3 — Buyers Guide UK
- The products and services of over 1300 companies classified under nearly 1400 separate headings
1962 — Volume 7 (first part)
- January — Number 69 (114 pp)
- Atomic Energy in 1961
- The year in the agencies
- W Sterling Cole (IAEA), Heinz Krekeler (Euratom) and Pierre Huet (ENEA) report progress in special interviews with
Nuclear Power
- Review of national programmes
- A country by country survey of plans and progress
- Progress in technology
- Robin F Guard reviews advances made throughout the world in reactor technology
- World reactor chart
- Compiled from data submitted to
Nuclear Power
by designers and owners, this revised and enlarged
3rd edition lists and classifies the world’s reactors and critical assemblies
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- The Saturn analogue installation — 2
- With considerable operational experience behind them, Dr T.O. Jeffries and his colleagues conclude
their article by describing user facilities and fault statistics, and discussing typical problems examined by the machine
- EDF–3
- Construction of France’s third commercial station has commenced.
An outstanding feature of this one–reactor 375 MWe GCR is the use of prestressed concrete for the reactor vessel
- Statistics and design data estimation — 1
- Established sampling theories can be successfully applied to nuclear plant design data.
The first part of A.N. Knowles’ article introduces the theory of this statistical technique
- Ultrasonic inspection of nozzle welds
- Complex weld geometry presented by vertical nozzles welded in pressure vessels make inspection by radiographic
techniques unsatisfactory.
Investigations made at the UKAEA, Culcheth, into a possible alternative are reported here by R.F. Hanstock and R.F.
Lumb
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- Leader : The year in retrospect
- Cross–Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : The 160 feet diameter containment vessel of Consolidated Edison’s 250 MWe
uranium–thorium PWR at Indian Point, due to go critical soon.
- February — Number 70 (112 pp)
- Atomic Energy in Italy
- Introduction, by the Hon. Emilio Colombo, Minister for Industry & Trade
- The economics of nuclear power, by Prof. Ing. Felice Ippolito, Secretary–General, CNEN
- Power reactor development, by J Spencer Burkett
- Industry’s contribution, by Dr Piertro Bullio, Secretary–General, FIEN
- The legal position, by Prof. G. Arnangio–Ruiz, University of Padua
- Reactor safety supervision, by Enzo Iansiti, CNEN
- The Italian Nuclear Forum, by Prof. Ing. Carlo Matteini, President, FIEN
- Liability and insurance, by Prof. Bruno de Mori, Rome University
- Nuclear research surveyed, by J Spencer Burkett
- Guide to Italian industry : a comprehensive listing of the activities of organizations and companies
- The Garigliano nuclear power station
Design aspects, by Dr Ing. Mario Covino, General Manager, SENN
Cut–away perspective drawing in full colour
- Design improvements of the SELNI nuclear power station, by Dr Franco Castelli, Vice–President, SELNI
- The construction of Latina nuclear power station, by H.C. Newsome, Chief Resident Engineer, TNPG
- Contributions to nuclear technology
- Training nuclear engineers
- Chooz : Europe’s first underground PWR
- This joint Franco–Belgian project for a 242 MWe station in the Ardennes is the largest under the
Euratom/USAEC programme
- Physical Science Exhibition — 1962
- From the large number of scientific instruments shown this year
Nuclear Power
reviews those of interest
to the nuclear technologist
- The law and sealed radiation sources
- A quick guide to the new law for the users of radioactive materials, by D Aliaga–Kelly
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- Leader : The Italian nuclear scene
- Cross Section, by Gracchus
- Cover : This 150 MWe BWR project of SENN, under construction at Garigliano, is on schedule and
beyond the half–way stage
- March — Number 71 (98 pp)
- Prestressed concrete pressure vessels
- British reactor engineers are focusing attention on prestressed concrete pressure vessel design.
S Gill and I.W. Hannah review the pros and cons, basing observations on model tests
- The
hubble–bubble
control system
- Dr D.L. Booth proposes to adapt the hookah principle to pressure tube reactors to overcome the difficulty of
controlling local reactivity changes
- The Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor
- Successful operation of this reactor and fuel element tests to be carried out in it may decide the future of the
nuclear superheat reactor
- Superheater design
- The technique described here by B.G. Ediss greatly simplifies the laborious methods of superheater design,
at the same time giving increases in overall cycle efficiency without additional cost
- Progress in nuclear electronics
- Highlights of the recent two–day IEE/BNEC symposium, which attracted some 370 people, are reported by
Dr D Taylor
- Similarity relations for electromagnetic pumps
- Prof F.G. Hammitt and J.L. Summers contribute to the discussion of whether electromagnetic or centrifugal pumps
are best suited for liquid metals
- The graphite reflector for Dragon
- Fabricating the 960 separate blocks forming this assembly called for precise and novel machining methods
- Statistics and design data estimation — 2
- Concluding his article on estimating nuclear plant data, A.N. Knowles shows how this theory can be applied to
problems such as pressure tests, creep rupture behaviour and stress analysis
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- Opinion : Joint industrial reactor project — Heavy water power reactors
- Letters
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Cover : This 40 MW AECL–designed Canada India test reactor at Trombay is being used for materials
testing and isotope production
- April — Number 72 (162 pp + Buyers’ Guide)
- Bradwell Nuclear Power Station
- Much was learned from the building of the first British civil nuclear power station to go critical.
These articles review some of the most important findings
- The core and fuel handling
- Developing knowledge overtook construction and forced changes in fuel elements and graphite structure
- The primary circuit
- Materials problems and leak tightness dominated the design and construction of the pressure vessel, ducting,
valves, circulators and heat exchangers
- Instrumentation and control
- The final installation gained much from Calder Hall experience
- Turbine hall and switchgear
- The main and auxiliary turbo–generators, substation and plant house are described and discussed
- Ancillary equipment
- Some of the many standard and special components supplied are here described
- Industry’s contribution
- A detailed list of the many British companies who participated in the construction of Bradwell is given
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- Opinion : Achievement at Bradwell — The AEA and economics
- Letters
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Cover : The nuclear power station at Bradwell–on–Sea, Essex, designed and constructed by The
Nuclear Power Group
- May — Number 73 (106 pp)
- Berkeley Nuclear Power Station
- Both reactors of the 275 MW CEGB power station are now in operation and preparing to run up to full power.
The articles in this issue review some of the most interesting design and construction aspects.
- The primary circuit
- Pressure vessels
- Ducting and circulators
- Heat exchangers
- Control and instrumentation
- Control rod mechanisms
- Temperature measurements
- Nuclear instrumentation
- Steam and gas flow measurements
- Automatic control
- The charge face machinery
- Ancillary equipment and services
- Industry’s contribution
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- Daphne — Harwell’s new heavy water reactor
- This low power reactor, soon to go operational at the AERE,
is designed to relieve pressure of work on DIDO and PLUTO
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- Opinion : Commissioning Bradwell and Berkeley
- Letters
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Cover : The CEGB nuclear power station at Berkeley, on the river Severn, designed and constructed by AEI/John
Thompson, now members of TNPG
- June — Number 74 (114 pp)
- Progress in nuclear instrumentation
- As a guide to a rapidly expanding and complex field, Dr D Taylor puts recent positive achievements into focus
- Instruments and the law
- What difference do the new factory regulations make?
D.E. Barnes reviews the health physics instrumentation now needed by users of radiation–producing equipment
- Radiometric monitors for in–line operation — 1
- This is the first of three articles by H Bisby and his colleagues describing instrumentation developed at Harwell
for plutonium and fission product monitoring at the new Windscale separation plant
- An in–pile counter for Berkeley commissioning
- A.L. Gray and M.W. Jervis show how low level flux can be satisfactorily measured during initial start–up
without using an active source
- Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition
- Interesting new equipment displayed at this year’s important international show at Olympia is reviewed
and arranged for quick reference
- Test rig instrumentation — 1
- Enough experience of this important subject has now been gained for a systematic review for the designer to be
attempted. Dr Taylor introduces the series
- A 360 MW advanced sodium graphite reactor
- The promising development of uranium carbide fuel makes possible the high performance required for economic power
generation
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- Opinion : Instrumentation and the UK
- Letters
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Cover : This large multi–way selector valve for DRAGON is underoing continuation tests at the Plessey
Nucleonics works. The precipitator cabinet, under inspection in the rear, is going to Trawsfynydd
1962 — Volume 7 (second part)
- July — Number 75
- Operating the Dounreay Fast Reactor — 1
- J.L. Phillips gives details of the problems which
have arisen on one of the world’s most advanced reactors and shows how they have been overcome
- Reducing leakage from gas–cooled reactors
- Present sealing technology is often inadequate.
The new techniques described by D.G. Stewart will help to cut wastage
- Correlation analysis and reactor dynamics
- L.G. Kemeny and R.F. Saxe discuss techniqes which may lead to fully automatic adaptive control computers for
running reactors
- Debris removal from the Tokai Mura reactor
- An inspection and collection system which can be used with
the charge machine is described by J.E. Hallett
- Progress with Dragon
- In the drive to make the high temperature reactor a commercial proposition
research and development is now concentrating on such problems as fuel particle coatings, fission product behaviour and carbon
mass transfer
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- Cover : This new picture from Dounreay shows the fast reactor steel sphere, heat exchanger house and the
control and administration block
- August — Number 76
- The Atomic Energy Authority annual report
- The Chemical and Petroleum Exhibition
- Operating the Dounreay fast reactor — 2
- J.L. Philips concludes his paper with an account of control and coolant problems,
and a review of fast reactor physics
- Advances in pneumatic and vacuum techniques
- Considerable activity has led to improved equipment design and performance,
and many new applications are reviewed in this special research and development report
- Test rig instrumentation — 2
- What techniques have been developed for the instrumentation of test rigs for control rod mechanisms?
A.D. Wright and G.G. Ballard discuss experience gained in designs for gas cooled reactors and a pressurized water reactor
- Radiometric monitors for in–line operation — 2
- H Bisby describes the radiation detector assemblies evolved to maintain continuous surveillance of fission product
and plutonium concentrations in a large–scale separation plant
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- Cover : The Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor, shortly to go critical, is shown with its completed aluminium
containment vessel.
- September — Number 77
- Douglas Point nuclear power station
- Fifteen years of research and development on heavy water have led
to the building of Canada’s first base–load reactor and a promise of competitive nuclear power
- Materials for the nuclear industry
- As a guide to the growing range of materials available, selective
information is given on new ceramics, metals, plastics, cements and many other specialized materials
- A gamma–sensitive ionisation chamber
- Mr J.L. Gray describes the development and design of an important new instrument
- Control systems for Hinkley fuel handling
- The complex instrumentation needed to control on–load
fuel handling at the Hinkley Point nuclear power station is discussed by E.J. Bateman and P.J. Rawson
- Materials investigation by the UKAEA
- Using the most advanced techniques, current research covers ferritic and stainless steels, graphite,
zirconium and magnesium alloys, and niobium
- UPC research at Heston
- Well equipped laboratories are looking at design and construction problems
associated with Hunterston, Tokai Mura, Trawsfynydd, and Wylfa
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- Cover : In these rigs at Culcheth, canning and other materials of interest to the UKAEA’s fast reactor
program are subjected to fast flowing liquid sodium
- October — Number 78
- Optimistic economics from the USAEC
- A heartening statement from the United States on the short term competitive position of nuclear power
- High pressure loop experiments
- For the third article in our series on instrumentation for test rigs T Hayes and D Walmsley give details of
Harwell experience in high temperature and pressure work.
- UK firms assess European export prospects
- A summary of views expressed by leading firms on the export outlook in reply to a confidential
Nuclear Power questionnaire
- Report on Europe
- A selection from the many interesting projects under way in Continental laboratories and workshops
- In–line radiometric process monitors — 3
- Concluding their articles on the development of techniques for continuous monitoring on the new Windscale chemical
plant H Bisby and his colleagues discuss pulse–handling circuits and information–presentation methods
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- Cover : Part of an experimental rig for heat transfer studies on liquid metals at the GAAA establishment
at Arny, France
- November — Number 79
- Oldbury — design appraisal
- An initial appraisal of The Nuclear Power Group’s design for the 560 MW Oldbury nuclear power station
- CEGB Annual Report
The Board is still interested in CANDU
— Hinton
- British Association
- More money and effort is needed for basic research
- Eurochemic — progress in research and construction
- This article describes some of the research undertaken, and the progress made in the construction,
for the chemical reprocessing plant at Mol, Belgium
- Sixth IAEA General Conference
- The Agency prepares for a third Geneva conference
- Halden — operating and research experience
- Since the boiling heavy water reactor came into operation in 1959 much research and operating experience has been
gained, as described in this article by Henrik Agar–Hanssen
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- Cover : A general view of the operating and charge floor of the Halden boiling heavy water reactor
- December — Number 80
- Fast Reactor Survey
- An up–to–date picture of world trends in the field of fast reactors
- The World’s first commercial irradiation plant
- Shortly to become operative, this Cobalt–60 irradiation plant for the sterilization of surgical equipment
incorporates some interesting mechanical handling features
- Research and Development in the power reactor field
- The text of an enlightening paper presented by Prof Silvestri to the Foratom Meeting in Paris, September 1962
- Temperature Prediction and Control in Production Reactors
- A better understanding of the temperature distributions in the Calder Hall and Chapelcross reactors has enabled
an improved temperature control criterion to be introduced, with consequent increases in power outputs
- A million MeV Accelerator
- Test Rig Instrumentation — 4
- In the fourth of this series of articles J.A. Fryer and
B. Savage describe the equipment utilized for heat transfer tests in connection with Trawsfynydd nuclear power station
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- Cover : The first dry loading of a Cobalt–60 source in this country was recently achieved at the new
commercial radiation plant installed at Johnson’s Ethical Plastics Ltd, at Slough
1963 — Volume 8
- January — Number 81
- Engineering problems with the Dragon reactor
- The special operating requirements, particularly that
of high temperature, have resulted in a great deal of interesting research concerning conventional mechanical problems
- A new reactor project
- South Africa’s first major reactor is expected to be completed before
the end of 1963 — designed initially for a power of 66·6 MW,
and later for 20 MW
- Neutron energy spectra — its measurement in the range 0·5 to 15 MeV
- Dr Coombe gives a serialized survey of the various techniques available for this measurement,
and describes the different types of detecting equipment used
- The operation and utilization of DMTR
- Over the last three–and–a–half years
an almost continuous flow of research and experimental tests have been maintained, many of which are described by Mr Lunning
- The representation of a one–dimensional model of a nuclear reactor on an analogue computer
- This paper by Messrs Proctor and Wilson, the first part of which is published here, describes a model which
will handle axial spatial variations, and is based on a set of radially–averaged equations programmed for a PACE
analogue computer
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- Opinion : The British Nuclear Industry / The Broken Promise
- Letters to the Editor
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Index to Advertisers
- Cover : Some of the test equipment for fuel elements at the Aktiebolaget Atomenergie fuel element factory
in Stockholm, Sweden, where the production capacity is more than sufficient for the country’s present needs.
- February — Number 82
- Atomic Energy in Japan
- Introduction, Ichiro Ishikawa, Commissioner, Japan Atomic Energy Commission
- Organization of development, Takehisa Shimamura, Director, Atomic Energy Bureau,
Science and Technology Agency
- Energy situation, Toshio Tsukamoto, Director, Public Utility Bureau, Ministry of International Trade
and Industry
- Third party liability, Yoshio Kanazawa, Professor of Law, Hokkaido University
- Safey problems, Tamaki Ipponmatsu, President, Japan Atomic Power Company
- The atomic industry, Seinosuke Hashimoto, Senior Managing Director, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc
- Tokai–Mura progress, H Kline, General Electric Company Limited
- Engineering Problems with the Dragon Reactor — Part II
- The special operating conditions, particularly that of high temperature, have resulted in much interesting
research into conventional mechanical problems
- Neutron Energy Spectra —
its measurement in the range 0·5 to 15 MeV — Part II
- Dr Coombe continues his survey of the various techniques available, and describes some of the detecting equipment used
- The representation of a one–dimensional model of a nuclear reactor on an analogue
computer — Part II
- The second part of this article continues the description by Messrs Proctor and Wilson of a model which will handle
axial spatial variations, based on a set of radially–averaged equations
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- Opinion : Nuclear Energy in Japan
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Index to Advertisers
- Cover : A view of the neutron diffractometer installed in the research reactor JRR–3 at the Japanese
Atomic Energy Research Institute
- March — Number 83
- Focus on Sweden
- A series of articles and descriptions focusing attention on the
remarkable progess made by the nuclear industry in Sweden during its relatively short lifetime
- Introduction
- Nuclear Progress in Sweden, Dr Bo Aler
- Marviken Nuclear Power Station, Peter H Margen
- Ågesta Nuclear Power Station : General Description, Nils Rydell
- Reactor Pressure Vessel, Olof Hellström
- Heat Exchangers, Torsten Wykman and Sverre Jenssen
- Refuelling Machinery, Per Eric Edhäll
- Control and Instrumentation, Stig Ericsson, Peter Hjertberg, and Ake Molin
- Installation and Erection, Olof Hellström
- Studsvik Research Establishment
- Ranstad Uranium Factory
- Swedish Reactor Chart
- Ågesta Coloured Drawing
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- Opinion : Nuclear Power in Sweden
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Index to Advertisers
- Cover : Top left, the reactor hall at Agesta — top right, assembling the heat exchangers —
centre left, fuel element assembly — bottom left, hot metallurgy cells at Studsvik — bottom right,
fuel element pressure testing
- April — Number 84
- The Ship?
- Atomic Energy in 1962
- The Year in the Agencies
- Sigvard Eklund (IAEA), Pierre Chatenet (Euratom), and Pierre Huet (ENEA)
report progress during the past year
- National programs in 1962
- A country by country survey of achievements,
plans and progress in atomic energy
- Reactor Technology in 1962
- A comprehensive review by Robin F.W. Guard of the most important advances made throughout the world in reactor
technology
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- Neutron Energy Spectra —
its measurement in the range 0·5 to 15 MeV — Part III
- Dr Coombe concludes his survey of the various techniques available, and describes some of the detecting
equipment used
- CANDU and the Canadian Program
- Alan Wyatt gives an up to date picture of CANDU and its utilization in the Canadian Power Program
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- Opinion :
Power
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- Letters to the Editor
- Cross Section by Gracchus
- Index to Advertisers
- Cover Picture : Artist’s impressions of alternatives for the first British nuclear–powered
merchant ship.