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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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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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Aldermaston staff high plutonium levels (1978)

Genre

Interview

Victor Macklin, Chief Nuclear Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, on the cases of 12 Aldermaston staff whose plutonium levels were found to be too high following the introduction of improved body monitors....

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Gemma Knight progress; Redwood politics; Wallaby found in Berkshire; Mound; Aldermaston Plutonium accident - nd [1975-1986]

Inserts for various programmes. See also AV769/361/S1, AV769/432/S1 and AV769/370/S1 for more about track 1. Track 1- Gemma Knight’s progress - report about the liver transplant. Track 2- Redwood politics....

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Plutonium Dream (1988 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Technology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min.

Looks at the controversy over the UK fast breeder reactor at Dounreay on Scotland’s north coast. With early colour footage, traces the history of the plutonium-fuelled fast breeder reactor, and examines...

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Aldermaston staff high plutonium levels (1978)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on 12 cases of Aldermaston staff exceeding permitted dose levels of plutonium after improved body monitors were introduced. Includes interview with Chief Nuclear Advisor to the Ministry of Defence,...

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Edward Pochin on conditions at Aldermaston (1978)

Genre

Interview

Aldermaston inquiry author and radiation expert Edward Pochin describes conditions at the plant and the plutonium poisoning of three workers there. He says the majority of workers had a normal level of...

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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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Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle (1982 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

In August 1982 at the prototype fast reactor, Dounreay, new fuel assemblies, containing plutonium originally created in this reactor, were loaded into the reactor core for the first time. This marked the...

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Sellafield leak (1992)

Genre

Interview

Telephone interview with Bill Anderton, British Nuclear Fuels (BNF), about a plutonium leak at the Sellafield re-processing plant in Cumbria. It’s claimed BNF initially indicated the plant would only be...

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