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Singaporean Engineers At CEGB

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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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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CEGB spokesman on fuel prices (1979)

Genre

Interview

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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