A press pack from the opening of Chapelcross nuclear power station in Annan, on 2nd May 1959. Produced by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) with press releases from firms involved in the construction.
A waterproof steel storage box from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston (now the AWE).
A Nuclear Evacuation Route sign from HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane.
A book of drawings of CO2 circulators from various early British nuclear power stations, made by James Howden & Co of Scotland Street, Glasgow.
An enamel badge from the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary police dog section at the Dounreay nuclear power research facility in Caithness.
A Perspex front panel from a glovebox – a sealed container used to manipulate dangerous substances – marked U-235 Fissile Material Storage.
In 1956, the Motherwell Bridge & Engineering Company built the containment sphere for the experimental Dounreay fast reactor, and to celebrate they had a few model spheres made, with a lighter inside!
