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| 17.10.1956: First Commercial Nuclear Power Station |
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| Queen Elizabeth II officially opened Britains first nuclear power station in the town of Calder Hall. The high temperature reactor uses fuel elements to generate heat which is conveyed to a steam turbine. Graphite rods are used to reduce the released neutrons to the speed necessary for maintaining the atomic chain reaction. |
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