Atomic Weapons Establishment

Mogon Patel, Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK... 

Our studies at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) have confirmed that at elevated temperatures, especially when using dry inert gas conditions, there is considerable difficulty in pushing the reaction (see scheme 5) to completion.18 Moisture was found to affect the rate of the reaction and the nature of the synthesized polymer. The introduction of additional catalyst to the reaction mixture was found to aid the forward reaction. Overall, our observations suggest the existence of a complex series of reactions, possibly having distinctly different activation energies. 

Refs 1) I.G. Gwillim et al, "The Electrostatic Iguirability of Dust Clouds of Powdered Explosives , Atomic Weapons Establishment, GtBrit, Rept ERN 25/55(1955)... 

Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Westchem, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 IXL, United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston,... 

My sincere thanks and appreciation also to the following people who reviewed the manuscripts and provided many excellent comments and improvements John L. Montoya (Sandia National Laboratories), Dr. Gerald Laib (Naval Surface Warfare Center White Oak), Dr. James E. Kennedy (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dr. Carl-Otto Lieber (Bundesinstitut fur Chemisch-Techn-ische, BICT, Germany), Dr. Hugh R. James (Atomic Weapons Establishment, England), Dr. Pascal A. Bauer (Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Meca-nique et d Aerotechnique, Paris, France), Dr. Eric J. Rinehart (Field Command, U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency). Mr. J. Christopher Ronay (Institute of Makers of Explosives), and Dr. Ronald Varosh (Reynolds Industries Systems, Inc.). 

Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR, United Kingdom... 

Peter Walker Atomic Weapons Establishment Pic, Aldermaston, Berkshire, England... 

Tim Cartwr t Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston, Reading, UK Jennifer David, Ph.D. Momentive Performance Materials Inc., Wilton, CT, USA Julie Etheridge Atomic We ons Estabhshment (AWE), Aldermaston, Reading, UK Joel Forman Exponent, Inc., Natick, MA, USA... 

Research has continued at Culham ever since, and it is probably the last major nuclear centre left in the UK other than the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. Currently it is home to JET, or the Joint European Torus, which is a large tokamak now being used as a precursor for an even larger international project, ITER, which will be built in France. Construction of the JET began in 1978 and was completed in 1982, with the first experiments beginning in 1983. It is now acting as a test bed for ITER. 

In 1950, the British government created the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) to be responsible for designing and assembling nuclear weapons. On 3 October 1952, the United Kingdom became the third nation to conduct a successful detonation of a nuclear device. A defining characteristic of the British nuclear weapons program, however, has been its special relationship with the United States. This relationship was formalized on 3 July 1958 when the two countries... 

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