United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY
Official blazon
Arms : Sable semee of plates, a pile harry dancetty Or and gules.
Crest: On a wreath argent and sable, A sun in splendour of thirty-two points Or charged with a voided escutcheon gules, therein a martlet sable.
Supporters: On either side a pantheon gules, unguled Or, semee of mullets, thirteen of six points, two of seven, and gorged with a crown palisado, affixed thereto and reflexed over the back a chain gold.
Motto: E minimis maxima.
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on April 12, 1955 to the Atomic Energy Commission.
The arms show the splitting of atoms. The plates represents the protons and neutrons; the waves the energy released by splitting the atom.
I have no information on the other elements.
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