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  1. Science For Society

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    895
    NoS ID
    329136
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Some peaceful uses of atomic power at Harwell - solar heat pump and a plutonium powered pacemaker.

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  2. Dismantling the Bomb (1994 Video)

    Director
    Richard Melman
    Producer
    Richard Melman
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

    Examines the process involved in dismantling bombs. It is easy to dismantle bomb cases, but the plutonium pits cannot be simply destroyed. Shows PANTEX in Texas where bombs are dismantled and plutonium pits...

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  3. Thorp: Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (1990 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Chemistry; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min.

    Visits THORP, the thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield. Shows receipt and storage operations; a small-scale demonstration of the chemistry of reprocessing with the separation of uranium, plutonium...

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  4. Nuclear Pacemaker

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    51
    NoS ID
    351040
    Story no
    2 / 2

    COI synopsis: Exclusive film, shot specially for Living Tomorrow, of the world’s first nuclear heart pacemaker. Powered by plutonium, this precision unit is built to last for ten years, supplying on demand...

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  5. Nuclear Pacemaker

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    51
    NoS ID
    351041
    Story no
    2 / 2

    COI synopsis: Exclusive film, shot specially for Tomorrow Today, of the world’s first nuclear heart pacemaker. Powered by plutonium, this precision unit is built to last for ten years, supplying on demand...

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  6. Nagasaki: The Horror and Legacy of ‘Fat Man’, The World’s First Plutonium Bomb (1995 Video)

    Director
    Serge Viallet
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS col. 51 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, marking the end of the war for Japan. Survivors, both Japanese civilians and Western POWs, tell of the morbid aftermath, the road from war...

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  7. Critical Mass (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min.

    Based on two lectures given in Edinburgh in October 1980 by Dr Helen Caldicott, chairman of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and winner of the 1980 Gandhi Peace Prize. She claims that although war is...

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  8. Inside Chernobyl Sarcophagus (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Edward Briffa
    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Chernobyl Unit Four exploded in April 1986. The ruins of the reactor, which will remaing radioactive for more than 100,000 years, lie buried in the ‘sarcophagus’. Shows the inside of the sarcophagus,...

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  9. S343 Videocassette 2 (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 176 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The second of three working videos course S343. [See synopses of individual programmes for details of content.]

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  10. S343 Videocassette 1 (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Rissa de la Paz; David Jackson; Michael Peet
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 96 min., 1999 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    1 (15 min): Close-up photography of colour reactions and colour of metal ions in solution. Titanium dioxide, tetrachloride, and reduction of titanium IV to III. Manganese ions from II to VII, and oxidation...

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