英国实验快堆的建立较原计划推迟了二年,结果是因祸得福了。如果实验快堆在一九七一年建成的话,(正如一九六六年该计划开始时所希望的那样),它正好遇上核动力极端困难的时期。然而,一九七二年中期,中央发电局局长A.霍金斯提出了一份悲观的书面报告,根据这个报告,中央发电局一九七二～一九八○年间,只能订购一座核 The establishment of the British Experimental Fast Reactor was delayed by two years from the original plan and the result was a blessing. If the Experimental Fast Reactor was completed in 1971, as the beginning of the project in 1966 would have hoped, it happened to be in a period of extremely difficult nuclear power. However, in mid-1972, A. Hawkins, Secretary of the Central Power Generation Bureau, put forward a pessimistic written report. According to this report, the Central Power Station can only order one nuclear core from 1972 to 1980