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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: Dragon...
Catalogue reference: AB 32
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AB 32
This series contains papers on all aspects of the Dragon project based at Winfrith. The project was sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was to produce a prototype high temperature reactor. AB 32/11...
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AB 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: Dragon Project, Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1959-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers on all aspects of the Dragon project based at Winfrith. The project was sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was to produce a prototype high temperature reactor.
AB 32/11 contains an account of the project, 'The OECD Dragon Project' by C A Rennie (dated 11 September 1963).
AB 32/122-1145 are Dragon Project (DP) reports. There are indexes to the reports at pieces 122 and 606-608.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records from the collaborative research programme with Harwell are in AB 62
For records relating to the Dragon project, see AB 56
Records of the scientific and technical administration, Northern Groups are in AB 65
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1148 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1993 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In early 1958 a committee was set up by the European Nuclear Energy Agency to examine methods of collaboration among countries of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) on experimental and prototype reactors. Eventually, this resulted in the OEEC High Temperature Reactor Project, usually known as the DRAGON Project, for which an agreement was signed in April 1959 by representives of 12 countries: Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, the Euratom countries (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Germany) and the UK.
The main objectives of the project were to carry out a programme of research and development work in the field of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors; and to design, construct and operate a reactor experiment of this type.
The UK was heavily involved in this project. DRAGON was sited at Winfrith: the UK contributed nearly 8 million pounds of the initial budget of 13.6 million; the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority acted as the project's legal agent; and half of the staff in the project's main divisions - Research and Development and Engineering - were from the UK.
The DRAGON Agreement was initially for five years, but it was subsequently extended, and terminated in 1976.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For a detailed history and description of the project, see E N Shaw, Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment: History of the OECD Dragon Project( Pergamon Press, 1983)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1647/
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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: Dragon Project, Correspondence and Papers
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