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Atomic Crossroads. Before and after Sizewell

Auteur	John Valentine
Datum	1985
Classificatie	2.05.8.20/09 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - SIZEWELL)
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The Sizewell 'B' inquiry has focused attention on the direction which British nuclear 
energy policy will take for decades to come-we are at the Atomic Crossroads.
The author begins by recounting the little-known history of Britain's involvement 
in the technology. British-based scientists were responsible for the first theoretical 
understanding of the fission bomb in 1940, the independent bomb in 1952, and the 
world's first nuclear power programme four years later. Despite the failure of the 
latest reactor type-the worst disaster in British nuclear history-the momentum 
engendered in those years is still a dominant force in energy policy.
In the second part the author discusses the issues that occupied the Sizewell inquiry 
for more than two years; the economics of the Pressurised Water Reactor and the 
forecasts used to justify it; the arguments within the industry over reactor choice, 
and the haste with which the Sizewell PWR design was drawn up. The third part 
examines reprocessing, cancer incidences around Sellafield; the CEGB's plutonium 
stockpile; issues of nuclear waste disposal and the direction which research is taking.
The author participated in the Sizewell inquiry in which generic and real issues were 
discussed. He presents the arguments for and against fairly and objectively making a 
persuasive case against further nuclear development.

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