Catalogue description United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Northern Groups: Trawsfynydd Magnox Reactor Nuclear Power Station, Assessments of Tenders, Project Files and Reports

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Reference: AB 39
Title: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Northern Groups: Trawsfynydd Magnox Reactor Nuclear Power Station, Assessments of Tenders, Project Files and Reports
Description:

This series relates to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's assessment of the design and construction of Trawsfynnyd Nuclear Power Station on behalf of the Central Electricity Generating Board. It includes: the original specification for the power station produced by CEGB: the successful tender documents submitted by Atomic Power Construction Limited; design, safety, progress and construction programmes and reports; UKAEA project files (including pre-tender discussions, tender assessments, reports and records of progress meetings); various miscellaneous technical reports; and the minutes and papers of several committees including the Trawsfynydd Station Commissioning Committee.
Date: 1957-1972
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Industrial Group, 1954-1959

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Northern Groups, 1959-1977

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Northern Groups, Production Group, 1959-1977
Physical description: 444 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Selection and destruction information: The papers relating to Trawsfynndd have been selected as representative of their kind relating to the collaboration between the Central Electricity Generating Board and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on all the early CEGB Magnox stations.
Administrative / biographical background:

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was contracted by the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1958 as consultant to assess the original tenders for, and the design and construction of, the Board's proposed nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, Wales.

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