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PEACEFUL USES (SUMMARY FILMS) 37 tories, at $146.62 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. New York City. Cleared for non-sponsored commercial tele- vision. Educational TV stations obtain film directly from NET Film Service, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Designed for high school through college-level audiences, this film surveys the role of the USAEC in guiding and supporting the nation's atomic energy programs. It reviews many of those programs, includ- ing both the peaceful applications of nuclear energy and those involved in national defense. The film opens with a visit to the community of Buchanan, New York, site of Consolidated Edison's Indian Point atomic power station. The enlightened attitude of the community toward the atomic plant is re- vealed as the camera visits the mayor of the town, teachers and school children, housewives, businessmen and plant personnel. Following a review of the atom's place in national defense, the film goes into the mining of uranium and processing into fissionable materials. It then explores the broad role of the USAEC, briefly discussing the make-up of the Commission and showing an actual Commission meet- ing in session, as the Commissioners, General Manager and Director of Regulation engage in an important discussion involving aerospace safety. The USAEC's responsibility in all facets of atomic safety is covered as the film shows the testing of a nuclear power source for a space satellite and the design and testing of a power reactor. The pro- cessing and storage of radioactive waste is discussed. After reviewing some aspects of the peaceful uses of nuclear ex- plosives, including Projects Sedan and Gnome, the film next turns to a survey of radioisotopes and their many applications. Isotope produc- tion at Oak Ridge is shown. Some of the uses of radioisotopes in medi- cine are demonstrated at the hospital at USAEC's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Some agricultural applications of radioisotopes are shown, including the irradiation of the screwworm fly and the use of radiation for food preservation. The radioisotope as a source of power is covered during a brief re- view of the SNAP (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) program. After a visit to Brookhaven National Laboratory to explore some as- pects of high energy physics at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, the film concludes with some statements by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the USAEC, concerning the important future of the na- tion's atomic energy program and the role the atom will play in benefiting all mankind. THE PETRIFIED RIVER See page 48 PROJECT DUGOUT (1964). 8V 2 minutes, color. Produced by the USAEC's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. For sale by W. A. Palmer Films,