Buy this book on-line Michael Flood : The Big Risk: Nuclear PowerFriends of the Earth, 1980 ISBN 0905966228
1980 Very slight bumping to corner covers, pages clean and flat. Book Extract; Britains NuclearPower ProgrammeThere are two different types of nuclear reactor in 'commercial operation in Britain today; theGovernment now wants to introduce a third.After the Second World War British scientistsindependently developed a gas-cooled reactor calledMagnox. Twenty-six reactors of varying shape andsize were built. By the mid 1970s they weregenerating just over 10% of Britain's electricity - orless than 2% of Britain's total energy requirements.Magnox was superseded in the mid 1960s by theAdvanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR). However, tenyears - and ten reactors - later, in 1974, the AGRwas rejected as too expensive and too complicated.Although four more AGRs were subsequentlyordered in 1978, the Government has now chosen toimport American water-cooled reactors. On the 18thDecember, 1979, the Energy Minister, David Howell,announced that Britain would build at least onePressurised Water Reactor (PWR), to be followed by aprogramme of nine more large nuclear reactors overten years., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Michael Flood : The Big Risk: Nuclear Power. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, out-of-print books, livres d'occasion, first editions and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |