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  1. Power from the Wind (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    Considers how wind energy was used in the past to perform a range of tasks, from draining the land to grinding corn and sugar cane. With the invention of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution the...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Waste Not, Want Not 1 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Gillbe
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min.

    Deals with the production and disposal of nuclear waste. Representatives in the debate include John Baker of CEGB/NIREX, Bill Wilkinson of BNFL; the anti-nuclear lobby: Stewart Boyle, Friends of the Earth,...

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  7. 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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  8. 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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