
400 Abandoning Nuclear in Favour of Renewable Energies
the Nuclear Factory of English Electric in Leicester. Furthermore, I
decided to follow a post-graduate course on nuclear metallurgy at
The Institute of Technology of Birmingham (now Aston University)
and on nuclear technology at the Technical Institute of Stafford with
an old university friend, Alessandro Rutili.
But the real opportunity for reaching my desire to join the atomic
power sector came from a casual visit to nuclear power plant at
Windscale (now Sellafield) in Cumberland in 1958. This was the first
commercial nuclear power plant in the world, officially opened by
Queen Elizabeth II in 1956, ...