Editing Culham (section)

==Culham Science Centre==
In 1941<ref name=Lobel/> the [[Fleet Air Arm]] opened Royal Naval Air Station, [[RNAS Culham (HMS Hornbill)|HMS Hornbill]], between Culham railway station and Clifton Hampden village. Most of the airfield is in Clifton Hampden parish, but HMS Hornbill was also called RNAS Culham. A [[Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post|Royal Observer Corps Post]] was also constructed, in a field east of Tollgate Road, adjacent to a pre existent [[Pillbox (military)|Pillbox]], just up the hill from the rifle range, next to the river.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/roc-post-culham-oxfordshire-30th-august-2011.t65261|title=Report - - ROC Post, Culham, Oxfordshire. 30th August, 2011.|newspaper=28DaysLater.co.uk|access-date=2016-12-03}}</ref> The [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] closed the airfield in 1956<ref name=Lobel/> and transferred it to the [[United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority|UK Atomic Energy Authority]] in 1960. The former airfield is now the [[Culham Science Centre]],<ref>[http://www.culham.org.uk/ Culham Science Centre]</ref> an 800,000 square metre scientific research site that most notably includes two major nuclear fusion experiments: [[Joint European Torus|JET]] and [[Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak|MAST]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/Tokamak.aspx |title=Culham Centre for Fusion Energy |access-date=16 November 2018 |archive-date=16 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116220204/http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/Tokamak.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak|START Nuclear Fusion Experiment]] was also conducted on the site until MAST succeeded it in 1999.