The launch of the Calder Hall nuclear power station on October 17, 1956, is a big, big deal in the history I’m telling. It was modest in size (60 MWe, what venture capitalists are now spruiking as Small Modular Reactors), it was suboptimal because it was partly designed to produce military plutonium (which never, in the event, proved necessary), but it was a huge deal. The Queen, two years. . .
July 30, 2024
The Marquess of Salisbury
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