biography
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Fenning, Frederick William
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| lived:
| (1919–88)
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| biography:
| British nuclear physicist and pioneer of nuclear reactor technology. He studied at Cambridge University, and in 1940 joined the Cavendish Laboratory, researching neutron diffusion problems associated with the development of an atomic bomb. He was later sent to Canada, where he played a major role in starting up the ZEEP reactor at Chalk River. After the War, he worked at Harwell on reactor design and, as chief physicist then director of reactor technology at Risley, he was particularly associated with work on the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) which led to the operation of the Windscale (now Sellafield) AGR. He returned to Harwell as deputy director in 1966, later becoming deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (1979–84). |
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