An atomic empire : a technical history of the rise and fall of the British atomic energy programme /

Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium for atomi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, C. N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Imperial College Press, 2013.
Temas:
Nuclear energy > Great Britain.
Énergie nucléaire > Grande-Bretagne.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mechanical.
Nuclear energy
Nuclear Physics.
Physics.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Atomic physics
  • 3. People and places
  • 4. The British production piles
  • 5. The British bomb
  • 6. The Windscale incident
  • 7. The fast reactor
  • 8. PIPPA and Calder Hall
  • 9. CTR and ZETA
  • 10. Research reactors
  • 11. The magnox stations
  • 12. The second power programme: the alternatives
  • 13. The advanced gas-cooled reactor
  • 14. The SGHWR
  • 15. DRAGON and the HTR
  • 16. Atomic energy at sea
  • 17. Finale.

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