BRITISH ATOMIC RESEARCH
MINISTER REPORTS ON PROGRESS HARWELL PILE TO WORK THIS YEAR (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. July 24. The Minister of Supply (Mr John Wilmot) said in the House of Commons to-day that the first experimental pile at the Harwell atomic energy research station would operate later this year. “We hope in time to build up there a university of nuclear fission second to none in the world.” he said. Mr Wilmot added that a new atomic energy plant would be established in
the Royal Ordnance factory at Sellafield, in west Cumberland. “I think that members will appreciate that it is hot in the national interest to give the number of staff emMor the scope of the project,* 3. All the Minister would say about the project was that It would “produce fissile material in a chain-reacting pile,” and that another plant at Springfields, near Preston, would produce pure uranium from pitchblende concentrates.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25246, 26 July 1947, Page 9
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