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“Banishing the Atom Pile Bogy”: Exhibiting Britain's First Nuclear Reactor (2019)

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This paper explores aspects of early British atomic exhibitions by tracing the movement of a display model of Britain's first atomic pile (nuclear reactor) GLEEP. Following the model's journey through a variety of exhibitions aimed at different audiences—commercial fairs, displays staged for communities near the site of the new Windscale reactor, the national museum, and a Commonwealth exhibition—we can see how exhibition organisers adopted a variety of banalizing and obscuring tactics to promote the benign atom while maintaining secrecy over the wider atomic programme.

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Article Jaume Sastre‐Juan; Jaume Valentines‐Álvarez (2019) Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies Through Display. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 2-13). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Munns, David P. D.
Donatella Germanese
Sastre Juan, Jaume
David Patrikarakos
Macaya‐Andrés, Ana
Zon, Bennett
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Science and culture
Nuclear reactors
Exhibitions and fairs
Science and society
Popular culture
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Michigan (U.S.)
Ukraine
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Spain
Institutions
University of Michigan
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