British Atomic Power Station to Cost £7,000,000

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1947, Page 3

British Atomic Power Station to Cost £7,000,000

LONDON, May IS. A £7,000,000 atomic power station which will produce electricity from uranium, will be built at Drigg, in the lake district, West Cumberland, says the aDily Express. The Atomic Energy Council hs prepared, ana Cabinet has approved, the plans. It is expected that the first uranium engine will be working within five years and will have a full production of 70,000 kilowatts—enough to supply a city with a population of 85,000. If the first engine is a success, others will be built at Drigg and a second atomic power station will be built somewhere in Scotland. The total output of the two plants would eventually be . more than 1,000,000 kilowatts, providing a quarter of Britain’s power and saving 5,000,000 tons of coal.

The Government’s Springfield factory near Preston, 50 miles from Drigg, is refining 1,000 tons of uranium ore for the new power station.