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City Berlin / Nagasaki / Cambridge / Hiroshima / Washington / / Country United States / Canada / United Kingdom / / Currency GBP / / Event Diplomatic Relations / / Facility reactor £2M p.a. / Dounreay Fast Reactor / Prototype Fast Reactor / Chicago University / / IndustryTerm electricity supply industry / by-product / thin plutonium metal rods / atomic energy / energy source / thermal power by-product / gas-cooled reactor / nuclear energy studies / fission energy / potential energy / nuclear energy programme / atomic weapon technology / nuclear energy / nuclear technology / fission products / / NaturalFeature Chalk River / / OperatingSystem Fermi / / Organization Manhattan Project / Chicago University / Portal committee / Anderson Committee / UK Government / Engineering Division / / Person Tongue / Hinton / Churchill / Siddeley / Attlee / Roosevelt / Truman / / Position Prime Minister / chairman / President / even Prime Minister / Head / scientific advisor / Controller / / Technology technology of nuclear power / atomic weapon technology / /
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THE BACKGROUND TO THE DOUNREAY FAST REACTOR The reconstruction of the UK in the aftermath of the war was hampered by a number of important shortages. In particular, indigenous, readily extractable coal supplies were