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Springfields 40th Aniversary. Open Day. (1986)

Auteur	UKAEA
Datum	1986
Classificatie	2.05.8.10/02 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - SPRINGFIELDS)
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FOREWORD

Forty years ago, when the functions of research, design and production were 
entwined as a single pioneering venture, work began on the preparation of the first 
nuclear fuel element, signalling the beginning of the Nuclear Industry in the United 
Kingdom. Over the years, those functions have crystallised and separated but the 
Laboratories have remained in the forefront of nuclear fuel development. Forty years 
on, the work is more diversified but the development and performance evaluation of 
fuel is still the cornerstone of our business.

We have contributed to all the nuclear projects. We are deeply involved in the 
manufacturing, development and performance assessment of the Uranium/Magnox 
fuel that powered the first nuclear power station in the world at Calder Hall in 1956. 
We continued with the first commercial power stations at Bradwell and Berkeley, 
and through the whole of the first generation of stations that produced more than 
11% of our electricity. The scope widened with the invention of the Gas-Cooled 
Reactor, the High Temperature Reactor and the Steam Generating Heavy Water 
Reactor.

Our manufacturing skills, our experience in fuel and core engineering and in 
structural reliability have been in the forefront of the development of the Fast 
Reactor and we are looking forward to collaborating with our European partners in 
a joint development programme. Over the last ten years we have diversified, again 
with significant contributions in the development of fuel reprocessing and waste 
treatment. We have enjoyed a wide range of applications - we have been supplied 
with the right equipment - but most important of all, we have here at SNL people with 
skill, enthusiasm and commitment They have proved to be durable, many of our 
present staff were here through those first exciting ten years. They are ordinary men 
and women who are an integral part of our local community but what they have 
achieved here is extraordinary.

We look back on forty years of hard work and successful achievement. We look 
forward to even more difficult technical objectives but we are confident of continued 
success. We are faced with the new problem of increasing public concern as to the 
safety of our industry. Knowledge and understanding are the true objectives of our 
work and they represent the only real answer to fear and misconception. We shall 
strive to convey our confidence to the community at large. Our forty years have 
contributed to a source of power whose demonstrable attributes are safety and 
economy. We shall work to continue to improve both these attributes.

JOHN SHENNAN

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