ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH
(rI.Z. Press Association—Copyright) I (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. —The chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee (Sir John Andersen), m a speech to the Manchester Research Council, expressed the opinion that it would be many years before atomic or nuclear energy came on the market for any but the most bmited and specialised purposes, in competition with the existing sources of power.
Work done so far pointed to certain lines of development in the future, but nothing had been discovered to justify the expectation that energy released by atomic explosion could be used directly as a source of industrial power. The only method which existing knowledge suggested as being practical depended on the conversion into heat of energy released by a controlled process of nuclear fission. That Raised further difficulties of heat control. There was always the possibility of some fundamental new discovery completely changing the character of the problem. Britain should devote all the resources possible to further research.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 3
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