NUCLEAR PLANT NEAR SYDNEY
Operation Next Year (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 20. The New Zealander who designed the construction of Britain’s first nuclear reactor, Dr. C. N. Watson-Mufiro. said yesterday that Australia’s first nuclear reactor was expected to be finished ahead of schedule. Dr. Watson-Munro, now the Atomic Energy Commission’s chief scientist, and head of Australia’s atomic research programme, showed more than 100 scientists and engineers over Lucas Heights research plant, near Sydney. He said that, the reactor, called Hifar (High Flux Australian Reactor). would be operating within 12 months.
Dr. Watson-Munro said that agreements had already been completed with the United States, Britain, Canada and some countries in Western Europe fo exchange atomic information. “We must be able to offer these people something in exchange for the information we will get from them on commercial uses of atomic energy,” he said. Dr. Watson-Munro said that there was no possibility of radioactive material escaping from the reactor as had happened with the British reactor at Windscale.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28414, 22 October 1957, Page 10
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