Название: An Atomic Empire: A Technical History of the Rise and Fall of the British Atomic Energy Programme
Автор: C. N. Hill
Издательство: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 1908977418
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 366
Размер: 172,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 atomic weapons. In 1956, Calder Hall power station was opened by the Queen.