Nov. 11, 1953 - World's First Atomic Power Station: The first atomic power station under...

Nov. 11, 1953 - World's First Atomic Power Station: The first atomic power station under construction is being built in Cumberland, England. To be completed in about a year and a half, the experimental station is expected to have an output of around 50,000 watts, enough electricity for a fair-sized town. It will be Britain's eighth atomic energy center. Photo shows Scale model of the new power station. The large, low building is the turbine house. On each side of it are the two reactors, where the heat is generated in graphite-moderated uranium piles. This heat is then transferred by gas to the four vertical boilers around each reactor. Fans situated in the low wings on each side of the reactor circulate the gas. The steam passes to the turbine house where it drives four turbo-alternator sets. The four towers at the right are for cooling the turbine condensers.