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MR. ATTLEE stated in the House of Commons on January 29 that Lord Portal is to be head of the organisation within the Ministry of Supply responsible for making available material for the work on the use of atomic energy of the Research and Development Establishment at Harwell, Didcot. This Establishment, the formation of which was announced on October 29, is to deal with all aspects of the use of atomic energy, and Mr. Attlee emphasized that it will require fissile material in sufficient quantity as speedily as possible in order that immediate advantage may be taken of technical developments, and the British programme for the use of atomic energy developed as circumstances require. He also announced that Prof. J. D. Cockcroft, at present director of the Canadian Experimental Atomic Energy Plant, is to be director of the new Establishment at Harwell.
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Development of Atomic Energy in Britain. Nature 157, 128 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157128a0
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