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		Hinton of Bankside, Christopher Hinton, Baron, 1901-1983.

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		Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
		Nuclear energy -- Production control -- Great Britain.
		Nuclear facilties -- Design and construction -- England -- Capenhurst.
		Nuclear facilties -- Design and construction -- England -- Springfield.
		Nuclear power plants -- Design and construction -- England -- Calder Hall.
		Nuclear Power plants -- Design and construction -- England -- Chapelcross.
		Nuclear reactors -- Design and construction -- England -- Dounreay.
		Nuclear reactors -- Design and construction -- England -- Windscale.
		Reactor fuel reprocessing -- England.
		Great Britain. Ministry of Supply. Atomic Energy (Production) -- Administration.
		United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Industrial Group -- Administration.

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Papers, 1946-1958.

by Hinton of Bankside, Christopher Hinton, Baron, 1901-1983.

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Great Britain. National Archives. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, UK

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Biography/History:

Hinton was one of the most distinguished engineers of his day. Beginning as a sixteen-year-old apprentice with the Great Western Railway at Swindon, he gained first class honors at Cambridge, then worked for Brunner Mond (later ICI) being seconded to the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. In 1946 he was appointed Deputy Controller of Production, Atomic Energy, and in 1954 Member for Engineering and Production when the Atomic Energy Authority was formed. His organization was responsible for designing and building the factory at Springfield for extracting uranium, for building Windscale with its production piles and complex chemical plants, the diffusion plants at Capenhurst, the first industrial nuclear plant at Calder Hall and the fast breeder reactor at Dounreay. In 1957 Hinton became the first chairman of the newly-created Central Electricity Generating Board. Following the conferment of a Life Peerage in 1965 he was an active member of the House of Lords, and a highly successful first Chancellor of the University of Bath. A member of many engineering organizations and institutions, he was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Council of Engineering Institutions, and from 1976 to 1981 the first President of the Fellowship of Engineering which he had done so much to establish.

Scope of Material:

Files from the office of Sir Christopher Hinton relating to atomic energy production during his time as deputy controller, Atomic Energy (Production), Ministry of Supply and managing director, Industrial Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. The files cover the establishment and building of the fuel and enrichment plants at Springfield and Capenhurst, the original reactors and fuel reprocessing plant at Windscale, the nuclear power stations at Calder Hall and Chapelcross and the experimental reactor at Dounreay.

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