I keep bumping into this from different angles, its technically very interesting to me so I'll ask the question here and see what happens.
In the late 50s Britain was looking for a more commercially oriented nuclear power reactor type to follow on from it's operationally successful but not very...
1960s
1970s
alternate history
atomicenergy establishment winfrith
atomic era
atoms for peace
british commonwealth
cold war
dounreay nuclear power development establishment
great britain
late 1950s
naval reactor
nuclear
nuclear power
unitedkingdomatomicenergyauthority
1960s
cold war
dounreay nuclear power development establishment
great britain
nuclear power
royal navy
unitedkingdomunitedkingdomatomicenergyauthority
vulcan naval reactor test establishment
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
20th century
21st century
admiralty research department
atomicenergyauthority industrial group
atomic ships
cold war
great britain
nuclear powered vessels
nuclear royal fleet auxiliary
post-cold war
royal navy
swan hunter
unitedkingdomunitedkingdomatomicenergyauthority
yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
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