Calder Hall

By the end of 1952 it was eertain that a PIPPA design had been produeed whieh eould and should be built. A summary report was prepared in January 1953, and soon after approval was granted for eonstmetion of the first two Magnox reaetors at Calder HaU. Before the first reaetor went eritieal in 1956 work had started on a further two reaetors at Calder Hall, and all four were at power in 1959. Constraetion at Chapeleross, in the southwest of Seotland, began in 1955. The fist... 

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Hinton, Sir C., The place of the Calder Hall type of reactor in nuclear power generation, J. Brit. Nucl. Energy Conf, 1957, 2, 43 46. 

Calder Hall power station in Cumbria, UK, on the site of the present-day nuclear power complex at Sellafield (Figure 6.11), opened in 1956 and was the first nuclear reactor in the world to produce electricity on an industrial scale. 

British Nuclear Fuels Calder Hall 1 (Seascale, Cumbria) 50 GCR... 

Theoretical advance (equilibrium, kinetics, mechanism) Acrylic weak acid cation resins Commercial uranium extraction by ion exchange First UK nuclear power station - Calder Hall Classical chromatography... 

British Nuclear Fuels pic (BNFL) provide a complete nuclear fuel cycle service with its sites at Springfields (AGR/Magnox Fuel Fabrication) near Preston and Sellafield (MOX Fuel Fabrication and Reprocessing) in Cumbria. BNFL also generates electricity using Magnox Reactors at Sellafield (Calder Hall) and Chaplecross in Scotland. This paper provides an overview of the Windscale Vitrification Plant (WVP) and reviews the major safety issues associated with vitrification operations. The practicalities of vitrification of Pu using the current WVP process are briefly discussed. 

The first RBMK-type reactor started up at Obninsk in 1954—two years before Calder Hall. It is still operating. There are plans for 70000 MW of new nuclear plant to be commissioned between 1984 and 1994 but how that target will be affected by the decision to build no more RBMK reactors is not clear. 

Calder Hall. Site of the first British Magnox reactor. 

Official opening of Calder Hall Nuclear Station... 

The provision of a reactor atmosphere, disassociated from the fuel element coolant, is a design feature that is peculiar to most graphite moderated tube type reactor. Exceptions to this rule are the British production (Windscale) and power (Calder Hall et. al. ) reactors that use air and CO2 respectively primarily for a fuel element coolant and secondarily as a moderator atmosphere. 

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