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  1. Singaporean Engineers At CEGB

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    Date released
    Dec 1968
    Series name
    Roundabout
    Issue no
    79
    NoS ID
    327887
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: A special course attended by overseas engineering students at the HQ of the Central Electricity Generating Board in Britain.

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  2. Quiet Room, The (1972 Film, Video)

    Director
    Frank Goulding
    Producer
    F W Connery Chappell
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Operation of the National Control Centre in London which directs the country’s electrical power transmission system.

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  3. CEGB spokesman on fuel prices (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified spokesman for the Central Electricity Generating Board on fuel prices.

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  4. Didcot Power Station (1985 Video)

    Director
    John Irving
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min.

    Shows how Didcot Power Station in Berkshire generates electricity for the National Grid. Looks at the full production cycle from the delivery of coal to the disposal of the ash after combustion. Briefly...

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  5. Nuclear Power: The Next Generation (1987 Video)

    Director
    Alan Ross
    Producer
    Glyn Jones; Alan Ross
    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min.

    Explains in the light of the approval of the Sizewell B nuclear power station by the Layfield Report and Nuclear Installations Inspectorate the reasons for choosing the PWR method.

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  6. Resignation of Lord Marshall as chairman of Central Electricity Generating Board (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    The Government is now seeking a chairman for National Power. The Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board, Lord Marshall (Walter Marshall, Lord Marshall of Goring), resigned today overa...

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  7. Chernobyl: Could It Happen Here? (1986 Video)

    Director
    Peter Fairley
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 min.

    Asserts that ‘positive void co-efficient’ is impossible in gas-cooled reactors of the Magnox and AWR types used in the UK, and that a Chernobyl-type thermal runaway reaction is impossible in the UK. No...

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  8. Acid from the Sky (1988 Video)

    Director
    Charles Dunstan
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min.

    Explains the sources of acid rain, the chemical processes in the atmosphere and the effects on the soils, especially those with a more sensitive mineral and nutrient balance. Describes measures being taken...

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  9. Electricity privatisation defended (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Energy, interviewed by Paul Rowley on the privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), breaking it up into 3 companies, and how it will benefit...

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  10. Electricity, Nuclear Power and Nuclear Waste (1986 Video)

    Director
    Laurence Vulliamy
    Producer
    Malcolm Nisbet
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.

    Recording of a lecture given by Lord Marshall, chairman of the CEGB, at Eton College in April 1986. Giving his point of view he argues that public apprehension about the radiation risks from nuclear waste is...

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