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Explore objects which reveal the story of the generation of electricity by harnessing nuclear power over the last 75 years. These objects help make real the sometimes secretive or complex process of civil nuclear power generation.

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Radiac survey meter AVO No.1 Mark 2 by ACWEECO. (Automatic Coil Winder and Electrical Equipment Co.) with carrying case, strap and radioactive source, British, 1945-1960.

Radiac survey meter AVO No.1 Mark 2, ACWEECO.

Thermocouple dolly made of stainless steel by BNFL.

Thermocouple dolly

Double width display panel with colour photograph of Dounreay site.

Display panel with photograph of Dounreay

A circulator impeller for an advanced gas-cooled reactor

Circulator impelle

Graphite brick for the Heysham/Hartlepool type of AGR

Graphite brick

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

Graphite brick, one of ten graphite components manufactured by Southern Graphite Services (SGS) in 1982 for a life-size simulation of the core of an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor. These consist of three types core bricks, three sorts of connecting piece, infill pieces, side wall bricks and convertor pieces between the wall and the core. The graphite bricks in the reactor core and act as a moderator to control the chain reaction by slowing down the neutrons.

Graphite brick for an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor core, 1982

1982

model of Oldbury Magnox Reactor, scale 1:100, with quarter section cutaway.

Oldbury Magnox Reactor, 1968.

1970-1982

Model of A G R Test Loop for Pluto, in 1:5 scale

Model of A G R Test Loop for Pluto, in 1:5 scale

1989

Heysham-II/Torness AGR (Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor) model with with quarter section cutaway, scale 1:100?

Heysham-II/Torness Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR), 1988.

1988

Model of Pluto Reactor, commissioned 1957

Model of Pluto Reactor, commissioned 1957

1955-1960

PWR fuel assembly (1/3 full length)

PWR fuel assembly (1/3 full length)

Dummy radioactive waste

Dummy radioactive waste

1989

Dummy radioactive waste

Dummy radioactive waste

1989

Type IB2 Geiger-Muller tube assembly with two spare shells showing construction

Type IB2 Geiger-Muller tube assembly

1978-95

Anti-coincidence counter with stand and circuit board

Anti-coincidence counter

1963

Dust sampling units, of type mounted on aircraft, c. 1960-1975

Dust sampling units

1960-1975

26 radiation monitoring sensors manufacturer unknown

Radiation monitoring sensors

1989

Rack with 5 Harwell type 2000 units, consisting of a power unit, scaler and G M detector by Dynatron Electronics Limited, Maidenhead, Berkshire, linear rate meter / integrator by Fleming Instruments Limited, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and timer by J & P Engineering (Reading) Limited, Reading Berkshire, England, 1965-1975

Rack with 5 Harwell type 2000 units

1965-1975

Two capsules for iridium -192 (dummy), used for industrial radiography, by Amersham International, c. 1981

Two capsules for iridium -192 (dummy)

1981

Early radiation detector employing Geiger-Muller tube; one of the early prototypes prior to the first commercial manufacture of this type in 1945.

Early radiation detector employing Geiger-Muller tube

1942

Early brass side-window radiation detector employing Geiger-Muller tube

Early brass side-window radiation detector

1946-48

magnox reactor fuel can cut away to show simulated fuel, inside; herringbone fins.

Sectioned magnox fuel can showing simulated fuel, c1982

1980-1982

magnox reactor fuel can from Calder Hall

Magnox reactor fuel can from Calder Hall

1970-1982

National Radiation Protection Board household radiation survey kit in cardboard transit carton addressed to Mr & Mrs P.J. Smith, 1982. Consists of 5 sample containers (x2 bedroom, x2 living room & postal monitor), various square plastic sample plates and two plastic bags

NRPB household radiation survey kit, 1982

1982

An AGR fuel element cut away to show structure by British Nuclear Fuels Limited, 1982

An AGR fuel element cut away to show structure by British Nuclear Fuels Limited

1982

Neutron source (dummy) of the type made by Amersham International, c. 1981, for use in Westinghouse PWRs

Neutron source (dummy) of the type made by Amersham International

1981

Perspex nameboard from side of `GLEEP' Reactor. Inscribed `First Reactor in Europe Commissioned 15th August 1947', 1.5 m x 0.4 m, British, 1947.

Perspex nameboard from side of `GLEEP' Reactor

1947

Laddertron section from nuclear structure facility, Daresbury Laboratory c. 1982, part of the belt from the 'Tandem van der Graaf' machine.

Laddertron section from 'Tandem van der Graaf' machine, Daresbury Laboratory, 1980-1982.

1980-1982

Two dummy Sizewell A fuel rod

Two dummy Sizewell A fuel rods

1970

Powermask MKIII. contained in a suitcase marked 'Jepson suit'. Manufactured by siebe gorman & co ltd.

powermask MKIII. contained in

1985

Geiger counter type M6H (Halogen Quenched) by 20th Century Electronics; gamma sensitive, used for medical applications (checking radioactivity in liquids)

Geiger counter type M6H (Halogen Quenched) by 20th Century Electronics

1951-1978

Model of the Harwell tandem van de Graaff generator

Model of Harwell tandem van de Graaff generator

Engineering model of Sizewell B PWR (Pressure Water Reactor) Nuclear Power Station, scale 1;20. Comprise eight quadrant portions representing the core and and two portions showing adjacent fittings and pipework, 1:20 scale. All on mobile platforms. Date of manufacture c.1985. Made by Forge House, Washington, Durham

Engineering model of Sizewell B PWR (Pressure Water Reactor) Nuclear Power Station

1980-1990

Model of the Gleep Atomic Pile

Model of the Gleep Atomic Pile

Model of fission Geiger counter type FC4, for counting individual particles and photons resulting from fission. Made by 20th Century Electronics in 1967. The model was made for, and presented to, Gilbert Tomes by his workforce at 20th Century Electronics (Later Centronic Ltd)

Model of fission Geiger counter type FC4

1967

One of two samples of granite mineral specimen from the Aberdeen area in Scotland.

Sample of granite

six uranium dioxide AGR (Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor) fuel pellets encased in perspex from BNFL, 1982.

Six uranium dioxide fuel pellets encased in perspex

1970-1982

Sectioned model, scale 1:24, of the BEPO nuclear reactor

Sectioned model

Nuclear protective suit, c. 1952, used at the Windscale nuclear power station.

Nuclear protective suit

1952

Halt with the nuclear - EDF, A friend that wants evil (in French) with picture of skull inside atom diagram (10cm X 15cm)

Halt with the nuclear - EDF

1960s-1970s

Button badge 'Nuclear power? No thanks we've got our own'. [image of sun]

Nuclear power? No thanks we've got our own

1960s-1970s

Text - Windscale, It'll cost the earth

Windscale, It'll cost the earth

1960s-1970s

Nuclear? No Thanks (with picture of sun) in ??? (4cm diameter)

Nuclear? No Thanks

1960s-1970s

Badge, Text - Nuclear Power Breaches the Peace

Nuclear Power Breaches the Peace

1960s-1970s

Two photographs showing the "experimental" face of the BEPO atomic pile at Harwell

Photographs showing the "experimental" face of BEPO atomic pile

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