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Colin Hamilton – Shutting down a nuclear reactor

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I’d been in the reactor to shut it down and flash it up.

Massive pressures down there and what have you but you go down with a Quartz Fibre Dosimeter and measure the amount of radiation which is very slight.

And of course, you’re a classified radiation worker so therefore you keep a record. In fact, there’s less radiation down there than there is where we are now.

But I did these courses. It was an interesting course.

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Colin Hamilton

Portrait of Colin Hamilton by Julian Winslow for Submariners' Stories Oral History project
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