Vintage 1961 British Nuclear Power Stations 1st Ed HCDJ Hardcover Hammond
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:18672130 | Subject: Nuclear Power |
| Author: Rolt Hammond | Publication Year: 1961 |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom | Language: English |
| Format: Hardcover with Dustjacket |
1961 British Nuclear Power Stations 1st Ed HCDJ Hardcover Hammond__________________________________________
There isn't much you can find on the internet about the first nuclear power plants in the UK. Not many know that the UK surpassed the US in nuclear power by atleast one year! Below summarizes all the internet info. This book was written in 1961 and tells everything about these first few critical years as Nuclear Power became a standard of electricity today. You ...wont find another copy of this book in better
shape.
Condition: Excellent! The book has beautiful covers and a great condition (but price clipped) dust jacket. The book's binding is tight, but it does have a few pages that appear to have been read, but there is no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. This one is a colletors copy! The dust jacket is now sealed in a mylar cover. Please check out my photos and email with any questions!
Thanks for looking!
From Wikipedia:The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was established in 1954 as a statutory
corporation to oversee and pioneer the development of nuclear energy within the United Kingdom.The first station to be connected to the grid, on 27 August 1956, was Calder Hall, although the production of weapons-grade plutonium was the main reason behind this power station. Calder Hall was the world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial quantities (although the 5 MW "semi-experimental" reactor at Obninsk in the Soviet Union was connected to the public supply in 1954).
and...
First nuclear power plant to close:Calder Hall was built for the atomic weapons programme and will take 100 years to decommission after decades of radiation damage. Paul Brown, environment correspondent Friday 21 March 2003 12.39 EST First published on Friday 21 March 2003 12.39 EST Calder Hall, the world's first and oldest industrial-scale nuclear power station, at Sellafield in Cumbria, is to close on March 31, 47 years after it was opened by the Queen.
Around half the 300 staff will be kept on to unload the highly radioactive spent fuel and prepare the station for decommissioning - a process that will take 100 years. In 1956 the opening of the station was a cause for national celebration, billed as the start of the "new atomic age". Local residents remember the claim that the station, which cost £35m at the time, would produce electricity "too cheap to meter".
In fact, it was probably the most expensive way imaginable of keeping the lights on, and it masked the main reason for building Calder Hall - to make plutonium for the nuclear weapons programme, a fact admitted five years later.
The station produced 180 megawatts of heat, most of which was used on site, but 40 megawatts of electricity went into the grid - tiny by comparison with a modern station.Calder Hall was the first of a series of magnox stations, so-called because the fuel cans were made of magnesium alloy. The second one, Chapelcross in Dumfries, was also built for military reasons. Altogether 11 stations, each slightly larger than the last, were eventually built, producing 10% of Britain's electricity.
The magnox design was replaced by new advanced gas-cooled reactors, whose sole purpose was electricity production. The 180 megawatt heat of the first station compares with the 1, 200 megawatts of power from the newest design, a pressurised water reactor, Sizewell B, in Suffolk, which produces about 5% of the UK's power needs. Calder Hall was not just for producing plutonium and electricity. It was also used to sterilise hypodermic syringes and produce radio cobalt, used in the treatment of cancer.
The original design life of the station was 20 years, but despite the fact it is now 47, it was expected to continue working until 2006. However, years of exposure to high levels of radiation have distorted fittings, making it impossible to guarantee the safe loading and extraction of fuel rods. It would be uneconomic to repair.
Station manager John Vlietstra said: "This station was the pioneer. Its long and reliable lifetime has proved that nuclear power makes a real contribution to the country's needs for electricity. Since 1956 it has been producing greenhouse gas-free electricity for around 200, 000 homes."Some of the younger magnox stations closed years ago and all of them are due to be shut in the next five years. Calder Hall lasted so long partly because its military use meant it was shut down for part of its life.
The fuel from the reactor will go to reprocessing works on the site, so the plutonium and uranium can be separated and stored. The process is controversial because some of the resulting waste goes into the sea.The government plans to shut the reprocessing works by 2012, bringing an end to the magnox era Burnt out: Plant's slow decline
--Opened in 1956
--Designed to last 20 years
--Employs 300 people
--Contains four reactors, producing 194MW in total - enough electricity for 200, 000 homes. However, only one reactor is still working
--Originally built to produce plutonium for weapons
--Eventually 11 stations of same magnox design were built, only four of which are still open. All will close by 2008
--It will be at least 100 years before the sites can be returned to green fields The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Saturday April 12 2003
00256
There isn't much you can find on the internet about the first nuclear power plants in the UK. Not many know that the UK surpassed the US in nuclear power by atleast one year! Below summarizes all the internet info. This book was written in 1961 and tells everything about these first few critical years as Nuclear Power became a standard of electricity today. You ...wont find another copy of this book in better
shape.
Condition: Excellent! The book has beautiful covers and a great condition (but price clipped) dust jacket. The book's binding is tight, but it does have a few pages that appear to have been read, but there is no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. This one is a colletors copy! The dust jacket is now sealed in a mylar cover. Please check out my photos and email with any questions!
Thanks for looking!
From Wikipedia:The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was established in 1954 as a statutory
corporation to oversee and pioneer the development of nuclear energy within the United Kingdom.The first station to be connected to the grid, on 27 August 1956, was Calder Hall, although the production of weapons-grade plutonium was the main reason behind this power station. Calder Hall was the world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial quantities (although the 5 MW "semi-experimental" reactor at Obninsk in the Soviet Union was connected to the public supply in 1954).
and...
First nuclear power plant to close:Calder Hall was built for the atomic weapons programme and will take 100 years to decommission after decades of radiation damage. Paul Brown, environment correspondent Friday 21 March 2003 12.39 EST First published on Friday 21 March 2003 12.39 EST Calder Hall, the world's first and oldest industrial-scale nuclear power station, at Sellafield in Cumbria, is to close on March 31, 47 years after it was opened by the Queen.
Around half the 300 staff will be kept on to unload the highly radioactive spent fuel and prepare the station for decommissioning - a process that will take 100 years. In 1956 the opening of the station was a cause for national celebration, billed as the start of the "new atomic age". Local residents remember the claim that the station, which cost £35m at the time, would produce electricity "too cheap to meter".
In fact, it was probably the most expensive way imaginable of keeping the lights on, and it masked the main reason for building Calder Hall - to make plutonium for the nuclear weapons programme, a fact admitted five years later.
The station produced 180 megawatts of heat, most of which was used on site, but 40 megawatts of electricity went into the grid - tiny by comparison with a modern station.Calder Hall was the first of a series of magnox stations, so-called because the fuel cans were made of magnesium alloy. The second one, Chapelcross in Dumfries, was also built for military reasons. Altogether 11 stations, each slightly larger than the last, were eventually built, producing 10% of Britain's electricity.
The magnox design was replaced by new advanced gas-cooled reactors, whose sole purpose was electricity production. The 180 megawatt heat of the first station compares with the 1, 200 megawatts of power from the newest design, a pressurised water reactor, Sizewell B, in Suffolk, which produces about 5% of the UK's power needs. Calder Hall was not just for producing plutonium and electricity. It was also used to sterilise hypodermic syringes and produce radio cobalt, used in the treatment of cancer.
The original design life of the station was 20 years, but despite the fact it is now 47, it was expected to continue working until 2006. However, years of exposure to high levels of radiation have distorted fittings, making it impossible to guarantee the safe loading and extraction of fuel rods. It would be uneconomic to repair.
Station manager John Vlietstra said: "This station was the pioneer. Its long and reliable lifetime has proved that nuclear power makes a real contribution to the country's needs for electricity. Since 1956 it has been producing greenhouse gas-free electricity for around 200, 000 homes."Some of the younger magnox stations closed years ago and all of them are due to be shut in the next five years. Calder Hall lasted so long partly because its military use meant it was shut down for part of its life.
The fuel from the reactor will go to reprocessing works on the site, so the plutonium and uranium can be separated and stored. The process is controversial because some of the resulting waste goes into the sea.The government plans to shut the reprocessing works by 2012, bringing an end to the magnox era Burnt out: Plant's slow decline
--Opened in 1956
--Designed to last 20 years
--Employs 300 people
--Contains four reactors, producing 194MW in total - enough electricity for 200, 000 homes. However, only one reactor is still working
--Originally built to produce plutonium for weapons
--Eventually 11 stations of same magnox design were built, only four of which are still open. All will close by 2008
--It will be at least 100 years before the sites can be returned to green fields The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, Saturday April 12 2003
00256
