C4 Rotating Mirror High Speed Camera bolted to rectangular wheeled steel frame - wheels missing Nuclear Energy 1950-1959
Sample of Gilsonite, used in the manufacture of AGR Graphite, from American Gilsonite Company, 1982. Nuclear Energy 1982
Model of the Harwell controlled Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (ZETA), scale 1:24, by Miniature Engineering (London) Ltd., London, SW1, 1958. With perspex shade made in Museum workshops. On 24 January 1958, UKAEA scientists claimed that thermonuclear fusion had been achieved in the ZETA experimental fusion reactor but these claims were later withdrawn. (Note: ZETA is sometimes incorrectly expanded as Zero Energy Thermal Apparatus). (Controlled fusion of atoms) Model of ZETA nuclear fusion device, 1954-1958. Nuclear Energy 1958
Sectioned models showing aspects of the gas centrifuge developed to enrich uranium hexafluoride, 1982. Nuclear Energy 1982
Replica fuel element for Jason reactor. The real fuel element is an aluminium box (as is the dummy) but the 16 fuel plates are made of 80% enriched U235 clad in an aluminium skin. This makes the actual fuel element much heavier than the dummy. The dummy fuel element was used in demonstrations for training men at the Naval college and for showing to visitors. Made 1958-1959. Replica fuel element for Jason reactor Nuclear Energy 1958-1959
Quartz Fibre Electroscope (QFE) Charger and two dosemeters made by R.A. Stephenson & Co. Ltd Nuclear Energy
Fuelling Grabhead Nose Unit used for handling Magnox fuel elements such as at Sizewell-A nuclear power station. Nuclear Energy 1960-1982
