Metal cylinder in a coffin-shaped oak container, presented to Sir Monty Finniston. This object was purchased at a Bonhams Auction in aid of the...
Metal cylinder in a coffin-shaped oak container, presented to Sir Monty Finniston. This object was purchased at a Bonhams Auction in aid of the...
Fuel rods have a key role in nuclear reactors. This rod contains pellets of a compound of uranium, uranium dioxide and a high proportion of...
Sealed glass phial containing 25 grammes of heavy water. Heavy water contains the isotope deuterium instead of hydrogen and is used to control...
These fuel rods have a key role in the workings of magnox nuclear power stations. The rods are long bars of natural uranium clad in magnox, a...
Model . This is a model of the world's first nuclear reactor, or atomic pile, built by Enrico Fermi on a squash court at the University of Chicago,...
Model . This is a model of the world's first nuclear reactor, or atomic pile, built by Enrico Fermi on a squash court at the University of Chicago,...
Engineering model . This is the first PWR in Britain, based on a design from the United States. The fuel is uranium dioxide, supported in a large...
Engineering model . This is the first PWR in Britain, based on a design from the United States. The fuel is uranium dioxide, supported in a large...
Model . These reactors were built and became operational in 1988. In 1958, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR. The core...
Model . Fast Reactors, or Fast Breeder Reactors, can be used to produce more fuel by breeding plutonium 239 from the non-fissile uranium 238. They...核能發電廠
Model . This reactor was built and became operational in 1968. Its fuel is natural uranium. The Magnox fuel cans fit into vertical channels in the...核能發電廠
Model . This reactor was built and became operational in 1968. Its fuel is natural uranium. The Magnox fuel cans fit into vertical channels in the...
Model . This reactor was built and became operational in 1968. Its fuel is natural uranium. The Magnox fuel cans fit into vertical channels in the...
Reconstruction. In 1958 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR, the successor to Magnox reactors, building a prototype at...
Reconstruction. In 1958 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR, the successor to Magnox reactors, building a prototype at...核能發電廠
Magnox power station has operated at Oldbury, near Bristol, since 1968. The fuel is natural uranium. The fuel cans fit into vertical channels in the...
In 1958, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR, building a prototype at Windscale, Cumbria. Like a Magnox reactor, the...
Model . These reactors became operational in 1988. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR in 1958. The core is graphite and...核能發電廠
Model . This reactor was built and became operational in 1968. Its fuel is natural uranium. The Magnox fuel cans fit into vertical channels in the...核能發電廠
Model . Fast Reactors, or Fast Breeder Reactors, can be used to produce more fuel by breeding plutonium 239 from the non-fissile uranium 238. They...核能發電廠
Model . On 2nd December 1942, Enrico Fermi and a team of scientists in Chicago achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction, in Chicago Pile No...
Model . Detail. These reactors were built and became operational in 1988. In 1958, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority began work on the AGR....
This porcelain bowl was found among the ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb explosion on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War II. It is a...
This sample of sand is from the site of the first atomic bomb test explosion at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The sand has been fused, showing the effects...原子彈, 原子, 美國
This rice bowl shows the effects of a nuclear explosion. Heat generated by the atomic explosion caused soil to be fused to the bowl. The Japanese...原子彈, 廣島縣
Model. Nuclear rocket engines work by using fission to generate heat that is then used to eject hydrogen gas at high velocity. All rocket engines...核能發電廠
In 1911 Bohr went to Cambridge University to work with J J Thomson and later joined Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University. By 1939 he and G V...
In 1911 Bohr went to Cambridge University to work with J J Thomson and later joined Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University. By 1939 he and G V...
Niels Bohr, Danish theoretical physicist, playing football, c 1910. Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who also played football to professional...
Frederic Joliot, Hans Halban and Lew Kowarski, c.1939. Joliot, Halban and Kowarski working with a cloud chamber. French physicist Joliot began work...
