Catalogue description United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: AB 6
Title: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and predecessors: Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

This series contains files and reports concerning all aspects of atomic energy research carried out at Harwell, including research and development, buildings and works, senior management papers, contracts and stores, finance and accounts, general administration, health and safety, personnel and establishment, research reactors and reactor development, and scientific and technical administration. The series also includes some files relating to the Wantage Research Laboratory, the Radiochemical Centre, Amersham and Culham Laboratory, and papers relating to the Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith for the period that it was run as an offshoot of Harwell.
Date: 1939-1981
Arrangement:

During the first year of operation most documents were issued in the form of committee papers. A list of reports is included in AB 6/195. Each division was given an identifying prefix number for use on correspondence and the list has been grouped under this number sequence with unregistered files at the end of their appropriate groups.

  • The numbers were allocated as follows:
  • 1. Administration
  • 2. Personnel and Accounts
  • 3. Stores
  • 4. Engineering Development Construction
  • 5. Theoretical Physics Division
  • 6. Health Division
  • 7. Nuclear Physics Division
  • 8. General Physics Division
  • 9. Engineering Division
  • 10. Metallurgy Division
  • 11. Director's Office
  • 12. Chemistry Division
  • 13. Extramural Research
  • 14. Planning, Progress and Procurement
  • 15. Health Physics

The list has been arranged so that the unregistered files and those numbered with a personal reference are grouped with the registered files of the originating Division. All items from piece number 228 onwards are files.

This list covers a number of transfers. The pieces are listed in the order indicated above within each transfer. Related files (ie parts) may be found in earlier or later transfers.
Related material:

Records of the first director of Harwell are in AB 27

For related UKAEA private papers see Division within AB
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 2684 files and volumes
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1973 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

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