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When Portal retired in 1951, he was replaced by General Morgan. Unfortunately, there were two General Morgans in the Army, and it is widely thought that the ‘wrong Morgan’was chosen. 1 When atomic energy was moved out of the Ministry of Supply to become an independent organisation, the AEA, it was headed by a Chairman. The first two were Edwin Plowden and Roger Makins, two of the class of administrators thrown up by the war. They were followed by William Penney. 5in An Atomic Empire b1572-ch03 An Atomic Empire Christopher Hinton and William Penney.
This reactor is the smallest and cheapest which can be built to provide information which is necessary for future development, whilst at the same time using medium enriched U235 which can be produced without interfering with the military requirements. In the long term, fast reactors would use plutonium as fuel, but sufficient quantities are not yet available and medium enriched U235 must be used instead in this first experimental reactor. A first charge of 850 kg [sic] of medium enriched U235 will be required, and this can be produced at Capenhurst without setting back the date when highly enriched uranium for weapons is first manufactured.
One of the major advantages was that the department could call upon the services of the Ministry of Works and other parts of the Civil Service administration. One of the apparent disadvantages was that the pay scales would be fixed to Civil Service levels, and thus might not be attractive to people of calibre, who could earn much more in industry. In 1952, the Conservatives won the general election and Winston Churchill formed the new government. He was not interested in the minutiae of administration.