At Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million ...

GLEEP the first nuclear reactor in Western Europe was built at Harwell in 1946.In 1946, because of its proximity to Oxford, an RAF airfield at Harwell was chosen as the site for research and ...

Western Europe's first reactor, at Harwell, near Didcot, is to be dismantled, marking a milestone in the history of nuclear power. A contract for the final stage of the decommissioning of Gleep (the ...

The first nuclear reactor to be built in Europe has been emptied ahead of its demolition later this month. Energy Minister Stephen Timms took part in the decommissioning of the reactor at Harwell, ...

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