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THE large atomic pile (BEPO) at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, has begun orating for the production of radioactive isotopes. When it is working at full power later this year, it will be able to produce all the artificial radioactive isotopes required in Great Britain by medical, industrial and other research workers. More isotopes will also be available for export, and it is expected that a steadily increasing demand for them will develop overseas. Materials irradiated in the new pile will be twenty times more active than those so far irradiated in the first and smaller pile. The new pile has. a rated output of 6,000 kW. and was designed primarily for experimental purposes. The smaller pile, designed to develop about 100 kW. of heat, started up in August 1947 and has been producing radioactive isotopes since September of that year. Present production is about a hundred and fifty specimens a month.
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Production of Radioactive Isotopes in Britain. Nature 163, 356 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163356b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163356b0