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 Atomic Energy Research Establishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) near Harwell, Oxfordshire was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s.
He chose a wartime airfield, RAF Harwell, some sixteen miles south of Oxford near Didcot and the village of Harwell, and on 1 January 1946 the Atomic Energy Research Establishment was formed, coming under the Ministry of Supply.
GLEEP (Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile) was a low energy (3 kilowatt) graphite-moderated air-cooled reactor.
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 unethical conduct index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Previously secret documents have also shown that although some scientists from the Atomic Energy Authority had fears about the safety of pumping any amount of radioactivity into the Thames these were concealed from the water authorities.
The documents disclose that ministers were deeply concerned at the scope of the AEA's dumping ambitions, with one Tory giving a warning that the maximum emission limit for tritium proposed by the scientists would have caused a "measurable genetic effect" on the capital's population.
The Atomic Weapons Establishment, the new name for Aldermaston, insists that radioactive discharges to the Thames are tiny, heavily diluted and have "virtually no effect on the environment".
www.awaywolf.com /fluoridation/fluoride/unethical_conduct/970713_atomic_waste.html   (626 words)

  
 Prize Presentation - Physics 1951
The analysis made by Cockcroft and Walton of the energy relations in a transmutation is of particular interest, because a verification was provided by this analysis for Einstein's law concerning the equivalence of mass and energy.
Energy is liberated in the transmutation of lithium, because the total kinetic energy of the helium nuclei produced is greater than that of the original nuclei.
According to Einstein's law, this gain in energy must be paid for by a corresponding loss in the mass of the atomic nuclei.
www.calstatela.edu /faculty/kaniol/f2000_lect_nuclphys/lect1/cockroft_walton_nobel_1951.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Klaus Fuchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the author of techniques (such as the still-used Fuchs-Nordheim method) for calculating the energy of a fissile assembly which goes highly prompt-critical.
From this the Soviet Union could calculate the number of atomic bombs possessed by the United States, and concluded the United States was not prepared for a nuclear war at the end of the 1940s or even into the early 1950s.
In 1946 when Fuchs returned to England and the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, he was confronted by intelligence officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as the VENONA project.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Klaus_Fuchs   (1680 words)

  
 Paul A. Chatterton
He was for a time a member of staff at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, where he worked on high voltage equipment and charged particle beam optics, and subsequently at the SERC Rutherford High Energy Laboratory.
In the 1980s Paul's research interest turned to the processing of materials using RF plasmas and, in particular, to the diagnostics employed for monitoring the plasma environment.
The Chatterton Young Investigator Award is established by the International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV) in honor of the late Paul Chatterton.
isdeiv.lbl.gov /Chatterton.html   (449 words)

  
 Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell England Reports and memoranda, 1940-1969. AIP International Catalog of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell England Reports and memoranda, 1940-1969.
Forms part of the Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and its predecessors, 1939-1999.
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and its predecessors, 1939-1999.
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 Otto Frisch | Biography | atomicarchive.com
Hahn and Strassmann in Berlin had discovered that the collision of a neutron with a uranium nucleus produced the element barium as one of its byproducts.
Frisch and Meitner explained the process in terms of excessive electrical charge, estimated the energy released and coined the term "fission" to describe it.
After the war, Frisch returned to England to work for the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell and held the Jackson Chair of Physics at Cambridge from 1947 to 1972, when he retired to concentrate on his books and business interests.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Frisch.shtml   (522 words)

  
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UKAEA Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, through the NEA Computer Programme Library, Ispra (Varese), Italy.
HEITLER computes the Compton, photoelectric, pair-production, and total microscopic cross sections for any element in the range of atomic numbers from 1 to 94 inclusive, for any photon energy in the range of 10 keV to 20 MeV inclusive.
The photoelectric and pair-production cross sections are obtained by suitable interpolation in atomic number and energy using a compilation of 25 sets of measured cross sections.
www-rsicc.ornl.gov /codes/psr/psr0/psr-004.html   (186 words)

  
 Klaus Fuchs | Biography | atomicarchive.com
At the outbreak of war, Fuchs, being a German citizen, was interned in a camp in Quebec, Canada.
However, Professor Max Born of Edinburgh University intervened on his behalf, and by early 1941, Fuchs had returned to Edinburgh, where he was approached by Rudolf Peierls to work on the British atomic bomb research project.
In 1943, Fuchs was among the British scientists sent to the U.S. to collaborate on the atom bomb.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Fuchs.shtml   (307 words)

  
 Centro di formazione per il personale interno o polo d’attrazione internazionale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the 1950s there was a deep-seated belief that science and technology were the keys for economic development and political power, at the same time when nuclear energy was transforming from an awesome military secret into a new capital-intensive civil industry.
After the momentous opening represented by the first Geneva Conference on peaceful applications of atomic energy, in November 1955 Derek Littler – the School’s Principal – proposed to use the School in order to influence other countries’ choices in favour of British technology, so promoting the export of Calder-type nuclear reactors.
Unfortunately, this suggestion had to face serious hurdles, namely the opposition of a part of AERE scientific personnel to invest their time, the severe shortage of funds and structures (the School was housed in a wooden hut) and the firm belief that all available resources had to be devoted to the national programme of RandD.
albinoni.brera.unimi.it /old/MilanWorkshop2003/Elli   (701 words)

  
 Harwell Memorial Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
They met at what is known as the Harwell Stone - the block of granite with its bronze plaque which marks the end of the runway from which the planes and gliders carrying troops of 6th Airborne Division took off.
Mr Procter a former Glider Pilot, recalled those who took part in the operation from Harwell - men of what was then the Second Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, as well as members of the Parachute Regiment.
A wreath of poppies was placed on the stone by one of those who took off on the D-Day flight,Colour Sergeant L.G. Aries, a Banbury man and one of the buglers.
www.rblharwell.freeserve.co.uk /GliderPilots/stone.htm   (214 words)

  
 Prof. Naeem Ahmad Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He worked as a post-doctoral Fellow at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England (1961-1962) and was a Research Fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA (1964-1965).
In 1961, he joined the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission as Senior Scientific Officer, and was promoted to Principal Scientific Officer in 1967, Chief Scientific Officer in 1970 and Chief Scientist in December 1986.
These include: the Atomic Energy Council; the National Economic Board; the Boards of Karachi University, Quaid-I-Azam University (Islamabad) and Bahauddin Zakaria University (Bahawalpur); and the Board of Governors of the Hydrocarbon Development Institute.
www.ias-worldwide.org /profiles/prof37.htm   (419 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #4208398 - Effect of void density and carbon concentration on the swelling of type 316 austenitic steel irradiated in the HVM
Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4208398&query_id=0   (168 words)

  
 29 - United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE Harwell) - Ernest William Titterton Guide to Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Reprints of two documents of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment related to nuclear research.
Reprints of 5 pamphlets concerning atomic energy research by UK Atomic Energy Research establishment.
Reprint of 'Progress report for the period 1 November 1968 - 30 April 1969' by UK Atomic Energy Authority.
www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /guides/titt/29.htm   (520 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue
The London native came to Yale in 1965 as senior research associate after working in various research positions at Harwell, England's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, and as a member of the Physics Division at Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
His research interests include compensatory renal growth and urologic cancer, and he served on the surgery study section of the National Institutes of Health from 1975 to 1979.
His research has received 40 uninterrupted years of funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
www.yale.edu /opa/v28.n1/story7.html   (3243 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > People > Ross Brawn
Taken on as a trainee by the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, near Didcot, Oxfordshire, Brawn spent five years studying instrumentation in the early 1970s.
His passion was racing and in 1976 he quit the atomic industry and got a job with March Engineering at Bicester as a milling machine operator.
As Williams found success with the FW07, Brawn moved up within the company, becoming a technician in Frank Dernie's research and development department and later - after the team had moved to its new factory in Basil Hill Road - an aerodynamicist, working in the team's own tunnel.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/cref-braros.html   (397 words)

  
 Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs passed detailed information on the project to the Russians through Harry Gold in 1945 and further information about the hydrogen bomb in 1947.
But it was not until 1948 that it was discovered that the Manhattan Project security had been breached and not until 1949, when Fuchs had returned to England and the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, that he was confronted by intelligence officers as a result of the cracking of Soviet ciphers known as theVENONA project.
Fuchs confessed in January 1950 and was convicted on March 1, 1950 and sentenced the next day to fourteen years in prison, the maximum possible for passing military secrets to a friendly nation.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/k/kl/klaus_fuchs.html   (353 words)

  
 Fractography of Glasses and Ceramics V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He is also an Emeritus Professor at University of Liverpool and a Senior Research Fellow.
Before joining the University of Liverpool in 1960 he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.
His early research included martensitic transformations, dislocation theory, creep, fatigue, brittle fracture and radiation damage.
engineering.alfred.edu /outreach/conf/fractography/hull.html   (307 words)

  
 Martin Blume
Following a year as a Fulbright Fellow at Tokyo University and two years at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, he joined the Brookhaven Physics Department.
His research has covered many areas of atomic and condensed matter physics, as well as the interface between condensed matter and nuclear physics.
Since 1996 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Physical Society, with responsibility for all of the Physical Review journals, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics, which are among the most prestigious in the world of physics publishing.
www.lib.utk.edu /admin/symposium/blume.htm   (244 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
SYNOPSIS segldr -l harwell DESCRIPTION The Harwell Subroutine Library is a collection of routines specializing in problems from numerical mathematics, emphasizing sparse matrix operations, and numerical optimi- zation.
The following is a synopsis of the areas covered by the Harwell Subroutine Library.
The subroutines are separated into groups with names beginning with letters as shown.
www.sdsc.edu /SDSCwire/Services/c90_opt_08_27_97/harwell.txt   (92 words)

  
 Alan DuSautoy's CV
Responsible for: a research accelerator (a linear accelerator for electrons); research projects on electron dosimetry and standards; and water calorimetry in photon and electron beams (from January to November 1997 and November 1999 to September 2000).
Organised three Radiotherapy Standards Users' Meetings, have participated in a further international intercomparison with the USSR, and was in charge of a research contract with Royal Marsden Hospital to theoretically investigate ionisation chamber response.
Contributed to the measurement of photonuclear cross sections and the theory of electron straggling in thin high Z materials.
www.npl.co.uk /~ard/ardcv.html   (431 words)

  
 Harwell site - UKAEA
The birthplace of the UK nuclear industry, Harwell is now being decommissioned and regenerated to form part of a major hi-tech business and science campus.
Help us develop environmental options for Harwell waste management
Introduction to Harwell, history and other useful information
www.ukaea.org.uk /sites/harwell_site.htm   (77 words)

  
 Prof. Syed Zahir Haider
Dr Haider a professor of Chemistry at Dhaka University (Bangladesh), and past Director of the Bose Centre for Advanced Studies and Research.
He also participated in a research programme at the Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, under the auspices of the Swedish Institution.
A lecturer and Reader in Chemistry at Dhaka University, he became a full Professor of Chemistry in 1970, and has served his university for over fifty years.
www.ias-worldwide.org /profiles/prof25.htm   (371 words)

  
 Physics Faculty: Jim Ring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
VISITING SCIENTIST (1965-66) Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, U.K. VISITING SCIENTIST (1973) Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. VISITING SCIENTIST (1981) Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
VISITING SCIENTIST (1987) Laboratory of Heating and Air Conditioning, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Research during these sabbaticals was supported by a fellowship from N.S.F., by grants from Hamilton College and by the institutions named.
academics.hamilton.edu /Physics/home/Physics/People/JimR/Jim.html   (152 words)

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