King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Nuclear History Database
UK Atomic Energy Authority records:
AB16 Ministry of Supply and UK Atomic Energy Authority:
Atomic Energy Division and London Office; files, 1939-1976, Section 2676-3120
[AB16/2676]
1948-1950
Distant nuclear explosions: stratospheric and airborne detection.
[AB16/2677]
1947-1948
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2678]
1952
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2679]
1945-1946
Atomic Energy Bill, 1945-1947.
[AB16/2680]
1946-1947
Atomic Energy Bill, 1945-1947.
[AB16/2681]
1947-1949
Atomic Energy Act, 1946 and Patents and Designs Bill, 1949.
[AB16/2682]
1948-1957
Infringement action to Fermi patent number 465045; Philips Lamps Ltd.
[AB16/2683]
1947-1950
Sziland patents; Dr L Sziland, University of Chicago, USA.
[AB16/2684]
1949-1960
Patent rights of attached Commonwealth scientists.
[AB16/2685]
1946-1969
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: work carried out by Atomic Energy Authority, patents.
[AB16/2686]
1945-1947
Raw materials: financial procedure.
[AB16/2687]
1946
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2688]
1947-1949
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2689]
1960
The deposition of strontium 89 and 90 on agricultural land and its entry into milk after the reactor accident at Windscale in Oct 1957; joint Agricultural Research Council/Authority Report, 1960.
[AB16/2690]
1960
Closed for 50 years - no description.
[AB16/2691]
1958-1961
Geneva Conference paper; district surveys following Windscale accident, complaint by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.
[AB16/2692]
1957-1961
Windscale accident; claims.
[AB16/2693]
1957
Fleck Committee membership.
[AB16/2694]
1957
Parliamentary question; radioactive strontium in bones.
[AB16/2695]
1957
Windscale accident.
[AB16/2696]
1957-1958
Loss of milk due to Windscale accident.
[AB16/2697 ]
1957-1958
Fleck Committee; Technical Evaluation Committee working papers.
[AB16/2698]
1958
Fleck Committee; Technical Evaluation Committee working papers and correspondence.
[AB16/2699]
1947-1958
H G Davey; history of Windscale.
[AB16/2700]
1947-1958
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2701]
1959-1964
H G Davey; history of Windscale correspondence.
[AB16/2702]
1961
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2703]
1957-1958
Technical Evaluation Committee; Fleck Committee memoranda FC/T 1-30 and minutes FC/T first to seventh Meeting.
[AB16/2704]
1957
Atomic Energy Authority and Atomic Energy Executive papers and minutes; extracts relevant to Windscale incident.
[AB16/2705]
1958-1559
Atomic Energy Authority and Atomic Energy Executive papers and minutes; extracts relevant to Windscale accident.
[AB16/2706]
1957-1959
Windscale accident 1957; D E H Peirson papers.
[AB16/2707]
1957-1958
Technical Evaluation Committee Filter Working Party; minutes and papers.
[AB16/2708]
1958-1965
Research and Development: recovery of expenditure, including European Atomic Energy Society exercise and National Institute for Research into Nuclear Sciences Charter.
[AB16/2709]
1961
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2710]
1955-1961
Superannuation Working Party.
[AB16/2711]
1958-1962
Public Accounts Committee.
[AB16/2712]
1953-1963
Uranium 308 and uranium 235: pricing and stock valuation.
[AB16/2713]
1960-1963
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2714]
1959-1964
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2715]
1959-1965
Commercial policy: overseas, general.
[AB16/2716]
1958-1962
Commercial policy: Tokai Mura.
[AB16/27l7]
1958-1962
Fuel element prices.
[AB16/2718]
1961-1962
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2719]
1959-1960
Atomic Energy Authority accounts to year ended 31 Mar 1960.
[AB16/2720]
1959-1960
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2721]
1959-1963
Exchequer and audit reference sheets, numbers 6/58-59 to 7/61-62.
[AB16/2722]
1959-1961
Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor.
[AB16/2723]
1949-1953
Tripartite relations between USA, UK and Belgium, except raw materials.
[AB16/2724]
1950
Retained - no description
[AB16/2725]
1957-1960
Combined Development Agency producers: sales to non-member countries.
[AB16/2726]
1958
Working Party on USA atomic energy negotiations.
[AB16/2727]
1953-1955
South African uranium, Combined Development Agency negotiations.
[AB16/2728]
1951-1954
South African uranium, West Rand.
[AB16/2729]
1954-1958
South African uranium, West Rand.
[AB16/2730]
1956-1959
Australia, Rum Jungle.
[AB16/2731]
1957-1959
Australia, Rum Jungle: revision of heads of agreement.
[AB16/2732]
1955
Australia, Rum Jungle.
[AB16/2733]
1955-1956
Belgian Congo, uranium.
[AB16/2734]
1955
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2735]
1957
Collaboration with USA.
[AB16/2736]
1957
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2737]
1958-1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2738]
1958-1959
Collaboration with the USA on fast reactors.
[AB16/2739]
1957-1959
Controlled thermonuclear research, co-operation with USA.
[AB16/2740]
1958-1959
Fuel element pricing policy.
[AB16/2741]
1958-1959
USA/UK collaboration in basic research.
[AB16/2742]
1958-1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2743]
1958-1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2744]
1956-1959
African Metals Corporation contract; general correspondence.
[AB16/2745]
1959-1966
Sir John D Cockcroft memoranda; diary copies.
[AB16/2746]
1959-1967
Sir John Cockcroft; correspondence with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority members.
[AB16/2747]
1959-1965
National Institute for Research into Nuclear Science Governing Board B.
[AB16/2748]
1959-1963
Sir John Cockcroft, Pugwash Conferences.
[AB16/2749]
1959-1963
National Institute for Research into Nuclear Science; Research Reactor Committee correspondence.
[AB16/2750]
1959-1960
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2751]
1958-1963
International Atomic Energy Agency Scientific Advisory Council; correspondence.
[AB16/2752]
1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2753]
1954-1958
Electricity agreements.
[AB16/2754]
1957-1961
Tube Alloys (Imperial Chemical Industries) Agreement, general questions.
[AB16/2755]
1959-1964
International competition for public contracts, degree of preference for UK firms.
[AB16/2756]
1955-1962
Building contracts, general policy.
[AB16/2757]
1958-1960
General Electric Company Ltd, radiation risk insurance.
[AB16/2758]
1959-1963
Indemnity and insurance, radiation risks and damage from radioactivity; Vickers Armstrong (Engineers) Ltd.
[AB16/2759]
1959-1960
Contracts for Rutherford High Energy Laboratory.
[AB16/2760]
1959-1961
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd; beryllium components.
[AB16/2761]
1957-1966
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2762]
1958-1960
Southern Works Organisation, general.
[AB16/2763]
1958-1965
Euratom, general contract questions.
[AB16/2764]
1958-1962
Milford Haven Agency Factory agreement; Murex Ltd.
[AB16/2765]
1958-1962
Exploitation agreements with industry.
[AB16/2766]
1958-1961
Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor contracts.
[AB16/2767]
1959-1963
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, European Nuclear Energy Agency and third party liability.
[AB16/2768]
1959-1968
Target price contracts.
[AB16/2769]
1959-1960
Use of industry for research, development and design work on power reactor systems.
[AB16/2770]
1959-1961
Employment of contractors and workmen in controlled areas.
[AB16/2771]
1959-1965
Arrangements with universities; research contracts.
[AB16/2772]
1959-1964
Disposal of radioactive wastes and Radioactive Substances Act, 1960.
[AB16/2773]
1964-1966
Disposal of radioactive wastes and Radioactive Substances Act, 1960.
[AB16/2774]
1959
Suggestions by firms; 'bright ideas'.
[AB16/2775]
1958-1965
Windscale contracts.
[AB16/2776]
1959-1960
Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor; draft agreement with consortia.
[AB16/2777]
1959-1960
Irradiation experiments in Ispra reactor.
[AB16/2778]
1959-1961
Underground non nuclear seismic test at Greenside Mines.
[AB16/2779]
1958-1965
Springfields contracts, single tender and open competition; hydrostatic press.
[AB16/2780 ]
1958-1962
Beryllium, general policy.
[AB16/2781]
1959-1964
Transport of atomic energy materials.
[AB16/2782]
1959-1961
International Business Machines STRETCH 7101 system at Aldermaston.
[AB16/2783]
1959-1962
Central Electricity Generating Board sale and repurchase of fuel elements, no profit, no loss.
[AB16/2784]
1958-1961
Central Electricity Generating Board sale and repurchase of fuel elements: general policy irradiation targets.
[AB16/2785]
1958-1963
Central Electricity Generating Board sale of magnox fuel elements: pricing policy, cost estimating and pricing assumptions.
[AB16/2786]
1959-1961
Retained - no description.
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[AB16/2787]
1959-1961
Central Electricity Generating Board sale and repurchase of fuel elements: procedure for administration of contracts.
[AB16/2788]
1959-1963
Central Electricity Generating Board sale and repurchase of fuel elements; contracts, patent indemnities.
[AB16/2789]
1958-1965
Main licence agreement with consortia.
[AB16/2790]
1959-1960
Royalties from Central Electricity Generating Board stations.
[AB16/2791]
1959-1963
Licence agreements: package irradiation plant, commercial exploitation.
[AB16/2792]
1959-1961
Collaboration with the consortia, 'bright ideas' scheme.
[AB16/2793 ]
1959-1964
British industries collaborative exponential programme; agreement with consortia.
[AB16/2794]
1960
Closed for 50 years - no description.
[AB16/2795]
1959-1960
Advanced reactor development, role of industry.
[AB16/2796]
1956-1961
Civil marine propulsion, general policy and Galbraith Committee issues.
[AB16/2797]
1959-1961
Civil marine propulsion, general policy and Galbraith Committee; papers and minutes.
[AB16/2798]
1957-1960
Marine propulsion; nuclear submarine projects, discussions with Admiralty on design rights.
[AB16/2799]
1958-1962
Consulting engineers, general.
[AB16/2800]
1959-1960
Closed for 50 years - no description.
[AB16/2801]
1957-1958
Submarine project: Rolls Royce, Westinghouse negotiations.
[AB16/2802]
1957-1958
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2803]
1956-1960
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd; Research and Development agreement and general collaboration.
[AB16/2804 ]
1958-1963
Beryllium: agreement with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.
[AB16/2805]
1955-1958
Relations with UK firms; Associated Electrical Industries Ltd.
[AB16/2806]
1955-1958
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2807]
1959-1966
Closed for 50 years - no description.
[AB16/2808]
1960-1962
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2809 ]
1958-1963
Yarrow and Company Ltd; nuclear tanker study.
[AB16/2810]
1959-1964
British firms operating in the nuclear field who have foreign connections.
[AB16/2811]
1958-1963
Collaboration with W S Atkins and Partners.
[AB16/2812]
1958-1961
General Electric Company Ltd; Fuji sub-licence.
[AB16/2813]
1962-1966
General Electric Company Ltd; Fuji sub-licence.
[AB16/2814]
1957-1958
General Electric Company Ltd - Allis Chalmers; sub-licence agreement.
[AB16/2815]
1958
Italy: Senn project.
[AB16/2816]
1958-1962
Relations with Japan: Tokai Mura consultancy.
[AB16/2817]
1960-1964
Tokai Mura consultancy: responsibilities between Groups.
[AB16/2818]
1959
Sale of fuel elements abroad: general policy.
[AB16/2819]
1959-1961
Sale of fuel elements abroad: general policy.
[AB16/2820]
1958-1960
UK: relations with Euratom.
[AB16/2821]
1959-1964
Packaging, transport and insurance of fuel elements overseas; indemnity to British Transport Commission.
[AB16/2822]
1959-1962
Export market for reactors: Board of Trade survey and consultation with industry.
[AB16/2823]
1959
Princess flying boats: proposed gift for nuclear powered aircraft research.
[AB16/2824]
1959-1963
Relations with Belgium, Belgonucleaire, BR2, Vulcain.
[AB16/2825]
1959-1962
Relations with Denmark.
[AB16/2826]
1962
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2827]
1959-1962
Relations with Spain.
[AB16/2828]
1960-1963
Relations with India, supply of fuel and fuel elements other than for power reactors.
[AB16/2829]
1959-1960
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2830]
1959-1960
Licensing of private manufacture and reprocessing of fuel elements.
[AB16/2831]
1958-1962
Licensing of private manufacture of fuel elements: Degussa and Nukem.
[AB16/2832]
1961
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2833]
1958-1961
Licensing of private manufacture of fuel elements; Metallurgie et Mecanique Nucleaires.
[AB16/2834]
1958-1968
Authority commercial policy.
[AB16/2835]
1958-1962
Authority patent policy.
[AB16/2836]
1959-1960
Sales of graphite.
[AB16/2837]
1958-1959
Uranium pricing, including writing down of uranium stock.
[AB16/2838]
1959-1963
Toll enrichment of customers' uranium 308.
[AB16/2839]
1964-1965
Reprocessing plant for oxide fuel.
[AB16/2840]
1964
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2841]
1959-1963
Costing and pricing procedure.
[AB16/2842]
1959-1962
Commercial organisation: Group organisation and sales delegations.
[AB16/2843]
1959-1963
Charges for services: irradiation charges in Authority reactors.
[AB16/2844]
1959
Collaboration with consortia on development work.
[AB16/2845]
1959-1961
Collaboration with consortia on development work.
[AB16/2846]
1959-1961
Sir William Cook, four categories; research and development of reactor systems.
[AB16/2847]
1959-1965
Publicity: exhibitions and visits.
[AB16/2848]
1959-1962
Programme papers; long term fuel costs and future size of nuclear power programme.
[AB16/2849]
1960
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2850]
1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2851]
1958-1962
Procedure for authorisation of exports of fissile material and of natural or depleted uranium.
[AB16/2852]
1959-1962
Cobalt 60: Gamma Sterilisation Proprietary Ltd, Australia.
[AB16/2853]
1959-1961
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority responsibility for reactor output.
[AB16/2854 ]
1959-1960
Isotopes Production and Marketing Board; papers and minutes.
[AB16/2855]
1959
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority meetings; minutes A.
[AB16/2856]
1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2857]
1958-1965
Publicity for contracts.
[AB16/2858]
1955-1961
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority coat of arms, crest, flags.
[AB16/2859]
1959-1960
Non-nuclear underground explosions.
[AB16/2860]
1959-1964
Radioactivity: procedure for dealing with the public.
[AB16/2861]
1958-1962
Collaboration with the USA.
[AB16/2862]
1959
Barter Agreement: press questions.
[AB16/2863]
1959-1964
Lectures and articles by Sir William Cook.
[AB16/2864]
1959-1962
Transfer of Capenhurst Laboratories to Risley.
[AB16/2865]
1959-1962
Five year forecasts; correspondence with Treasury.
[AB16/2866]
1961-1962
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2867]
1958-1961
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Annual Report: press questions.
[AB16/2868]
1956
Group Secretaries' meetings; agenda, papers and Chairman's brief for first three meetings.
[AB16/2869]
1957
Group Secretaries' meetings; agenda, papers and Chairman's brief for fourth and fifth meetings.
[AB16/2870]
1958
Group Secretaries' meetings; agenda, papers and Chairman's brief for sixth to eighth meetings.
[AB16/2871]
1958-1959
Group Secretaries' meetings; agenda, papers and Chairman's brief for ninth to eleventh meetings.
[AB16/2872]
1954-1962
Group Secretaries' meetings; master set of minutes, first to eighteenth meetings.
[AB16/2873]
1956-1959
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2874]
1954-1955
Minutes of Principal Administrative Officers' meetings prior to start of Group Secretaries Conferences.
[AB16/2875]
1958-1959
Committee on Training in Health and Safety.
[AB16/2876]
1959-1960
Veale Committee on Training in Health and Safety.
[AB16/2877]
1958-1961
Tripartite Committee on Health and Safety.
[AB16/2878]
1958-1961
Proposed reduction of manpower by eight percent.
[AB16/2879]
1959-1963
Manpower: Weapons Group rundown.
[AB16/2880]
1963
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2881]
1958-1959
Decentralisation of personnel and administration work.
[AB16/2882]
1959-1962
Management Services in Groups: review of Contracts Branch, Winfrith.
[AB16/2883]
1958-1961
Directory of Authority Committees.
[AB16/2884]
1966-1967
Directory of Authority Committees.
[AB16/2885]
1959-1960
Implications of the Executive Class pay award on 1 Oct 1958.
[AB16/2886]
1959-1965
Transfer allowances: UK, general policy.
[AB16/2887]
1958-1963
Assisted Travel Scheme: Winfrith.
[AB16/2888]
1959-1962
Recruitment of university graduates, engineers and scientists.
[AB16/2889]
1959-1960
Recruitment of staff from Commonwealth and European countries; general and security policy.
[AB16/2890]
1960
Retained - no description.
[AB16/2891]
1959-1963
Leave and hours: sick leave and maternity leave.
[AB16/2892]
1958-1963
Loan and secondment of staff: general policy.
[AB16/2893]
1959-1962
Superannuation, retirements, resignations and redundancy: policy.
[AB16/2894]
1959-1963
Redundancy of geologists.
[AB16/2895]
1959-1967
Business appointments on retirement.
[AB16/2896]
1959-1960
Structure: abolition of clocking on and off for chargehands.
[AB16/2897]
1959-1962
Review of transfer policy and procedures.
[AB16/2898]
1958-1959
Estimates; memorandum from Industrial Group to Select Committee, Feb 1959.
[AB16/2899]
1959-1962
Statistics, estimates and expenditure: general.
[AB16/2900]
1959-1960
Abortive proposals for secondment of surplus consortia staff to the Atomic Energy Authority.
[AB16/2901]
1958-1960
House purchase scheme: assistance and encouragement to staff.
[AB16/2902]
1958-1959
Authority houses: revision of rents.
[AB16/2903]
1959-1961
Atomic Energy Authority housing: revision of rents.
[AB16/2904]
1959-1962
Atomic Energy Authority housing: Scottish rents.
[AB16/2905]
1959-1963
Atomic Energy Authority housing: policy on sale of houses.
[AB16/2906]
1959-1961
Annual review of Authority general notices.
[AB16/2907]
1958-1963
Examination of management training and possible need for residential training centre.
[AB16/2908]
1958-1960
Postgraduate training for Authority Health and Safety Branch staff.
[AB16/2909]
1958-1965
London Office training: general guide for new students.
[AB16/2910]
1959-1960
Correspondence and discussions with Institution of Professional Civil Servants on structure.
[AB16/2911]
1959-1960
Organisation of Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary: Holmes Report.
[AB16/2912]
1958-1959
Nuclear propelled tanker.
[AB16/2913]
1959-1966
Nuclear fuel, private manufacture in the UK.
[AB16/2914]
1959-1962
Capital expenditure proposals; form of submission.
[AB16/2915]
1959-1962
Use of outside industry for development and design.
[AB16/2916]
1958-1959
Cost control.
[AB16/2917]
1959
Select Committee on Estimates; memoranda submitted by Atomic Energy Authority to Sub-committee B.
[AB16/2918]
1958-1959
Select Committee on Estimates; correspondence.
[AB16/2919]
1959
Select Committee on Estimates; correspondence.
[AB16/2920]
1959
Select Committee on Estimates; correspondence.
[AB16/2921]
1959-1962
Select Committee on Estimates; correspondence.
[AB16/2922]
1959-1963
Air services, Hurn Abingdon Ringway charter.
[AB16/2923]
1958-1964
Delegated powers, Research Group.