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18 FUELS, PROCESSING, AND METALLURGY steps, including the measurement of fuel density by gamma-ray attenuation. Vibrational compaction is shown to be particularly adapted to loading fuel into large fuel-element components and into pre- assembled multicomponent fuel elements. Hot swaging of induction heated rods containing powdered UO 2 is also illustrated. CURRENT METHODS IN PLUTONIUM FUEL FABRICATION (1965). 30 minutes, color. Produced by the Hanford Atomic Products Operation, General Electric Company, as contractor for the USAEC. For sale by W. A. Palmer Films, at $140.46 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. San Francisco. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This film depicts the steps currently (December 1964) employed in the fabrication of plutonium-uranium ceramic fuel elements for the PRTR and EBWR at Hanford's Plutonium Fabrication Pilot Plant. Presented are the various types of elements fabricated, the methods for the routine handling of plutonium and plutonium compounds, the prepara- tion of plutonium dioxide from the metal, and its mixture with uranium dioxide. The necessity for densifying the powdered fuel is explained, and the steps involved in achieving high density particles by pneumatic impaction are illustrated in detail. Processes shown include pressing of the dense fuel from the impaction container, pulverizing, sieving into different size fractions, and blending into appropriate proportions for fuel rod fabrication either by vibrational compaction or swaging. Swaging, a process for simultaneously compacting and cladding ceramic fuels to form high density fuel rods, is fully illustrated, both in live and animated sequences. A newer process, vibrational com- paction, accomplishes similar results. The process is depicted in a live sequence which illustrates its rapidity, simplicity, and flexibility. Decontamination of loaded fuel rods and welding of the final end caps are followed by several unconventional testing techniques before as- sembly of the rods into the nineteen-rod nuclear fuel element cluster. The processes and equipment that are shown for the fabrication of plutonium-uranium oxide fuel elements are expected to find major application in the commercial fabrication of plutonium bearing fuel elements for central station power reactors, space reactors, and other special purposes in which plutonium fuels can be used to advantage. EBR-I CORE DISASSEMBLY AFTER MELTDOWN (1958). 13 min- utes, color. Produced by USAEC's Argonne National Laboratory. For sale by Byron Motion Pictures, at $42.31 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. Washington, D. C. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters, field libraries, and Argonne National