Thankfully this reactor- with its bare-minumum of filtration and shielding- was never built. Thorium reactors did not produce militarily-usable reaction products, so were sidelined in favour of the system we know today, with all its hazards.
#nuclearfission #harwell #dounreay #winfrith
#UK "Feedback is being sought on environmental permits to continue decommissioning the #Winfrith nuclear site. The site, which operated from 1959 to 1992, is in the final stages of decommissioning" uk.news.yahoo.com/public-asked... NRS "has applied to the Environment Agency to vary..." rad permits
an all-male group dinner of scientific staff at Winfrith atomic energy research establishment, no date.
#TheFuture isn't really dreamt up inside the heads of a few #megalomaniacs. It takes a vast number of people. Look at them en masse... and consider how we get the futures we do. #Winfrith
