Dr G. R. Bainbridge is Manager of Technical Assessments in the Reactor Group of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. At the beginning of August he takes up his appointment to the new Chair of Energy Studies in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Here, he discusses the nuclear fission reactor options which Britain could take up during the next decade and gives an outline of the broad energy requirements for which nuclear reactors are needed.
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Bainbridge, G. Nuclear options. Nature 249, 733–737 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249733a0
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