HANDLING HIGHLY RADIO-ACTIVE MATERIALS.—A new building has just been completed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, for the handling of highly radio-active materials. This photograph shows a frogman inside one of the five experimental cells, decontaminating the mechanical equipment used for manipulating the specimens by remote control. The cells, which have walls of concrete 5ft 6in thick, are separated from each other by removable shielding doors of steel-shot concrete, weighing about 30 tons each.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28492, 23 January 1958, Page 16
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75HANDLING HIGHLY RADIO-ACTIVE MATERIALS.—A new building has just been completed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, for the handling of highly radio-active materials. This photograph shows a frogman inside one of the five experimental cells, decontaminating the mechanical equipment used for manipulating the specimens by remote control. The cells, which have walls of concrete 5ft 6in thick, are separated from each other by removable shielding doors of steel-shot concrete, weighing about 30 tons each. Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28492, 23 January 1958, Page 16
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