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I'm not sure how reliable the diagram, and description inspired by it, are. (As of
this revision). For one thing, it doesn't even state whether it's describing a
Magnox or an
AGR flask -- presumably a Magnox flask, given the thickness of the steel and the absence of lead shielding.
The diagram needs to be compared to the image here
[1], and the cutaway in the CORE "spotter's guide"
[2]
It's a shame the diagram doesn't make more of the distinctive cooling fins and shape of the flasks, so iconic in the repeated lingering shots of the nuclear train in
Edge of Darkness; in pics from the 1980s
[3][4] before they added the transport cabins; and the crash-test one
[5] now on display in Blackpool. Also the innermost "skip" is surely rather larger than our diagram presents it.
The presentation of the "flask locking hasp and bolt" which "takes around two hours to remove" also seems to be a bit curious. In other drawings there seem to be a number of bolts -- sixteen or thirty two, securing each edge of the lid.
Jheald (
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12:01, 16 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Try this mid-1980s video about
Nuclear flask testing, on YouTube here:
[7] if you want to see how they're made and tested. The video's from an old BBC
Horizon programme. The flask is
drop-forged from a single billet, and the lid (also drop forged from a single billet) is added later. Price for a complete flask is around 1/2 a million pounds, 1980s prices. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
213.40.249.181 (
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20:46, 28 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Not a Horizon, I think, nor a Q.E.D.. Looks to me like a publicity film made for the
CEGB, which ran the Magnox power stations at the time through its subsidiary Magnox Electric Ltd; hence the more recent "Magnox" logo at the start and the end. Magnox Electric was transferred to
BNFL in 1998, then devolved off as a separate free-standing concern in 2007, and even more recently has been split into two parts, Magnox North and Magnox South. But I can't confirm whether the logo on the film is/was/has been in fact that of Magnox Electric.
I suspect that the film was originally made for the CEGB then, as it has a 1980s 'feel' to it. I surmised it was Horizon as it was narrated by Paul Vaughan and he was one of the main narrators on that programme at the time. —Preceding
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21:35, 10 March 2011 (UTC)reply