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30 PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES (PLOWSHARE) (4) to provide information on design of nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes; and (5) to investigate the practicability of recovering useful radioisotopes. Topics covered: geological and safety considerations explored in selection of the Gnome site; drilling and construction of the shaft, underground access tunnel and shot chamber; the surface installations; special monitoring and other programs conducted to afford safety to the public; the seismic and radiological monitoring programs; principal equipment and instrumentation installation in support of the complex scientific experiments; the pre-shot news media tour; the surface movement above ground zero at the moment of detonation; the escape of vapor from the shaft; recovery of scientific data and equipment; and entry into the underground cavity in May 1962. Dr. Edward Teller, University of California nuclear physicist, discusses the objectives of the Plowshare Program and the preliminary results of Project Gnome in the opening and closing scenes. NOTE: A slightly more technical version of the above film, available upon special request to the USAEC headquarters or San Francisco field libraries is entitled: PROJECT GNOME TECHNICAL REPORT, see below. PROJECT GNOME TECHNICAL REPORT (1964). 19 minutes, color. Produced by the USAEC's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. For sale by W. A. Palmer Films, at $79.86 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. San Francisco. Available for loan (free) only from USAEC headquarters and San Francisco field libraries. Cleared for television. This film presents the technical aspects of Project Gnome, the first experiment of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's Plowshare Program to study peaceful applications of nuclear explosives. Methods of implementation of the basic goals are illustrated by animation. Various measurements — including those of the phenomenology of a nuclear explosion in a dry salt medium, power and isotope production studies, and neutron physics experiments — are discussed. Re-entry into the cavity created by the explosion is shown. Significance of the seismic signals produced, isotope studies, and neutron physics experi- ments is covered. NOTE: A slightly less technical motion picture on this subject is available from all USAEC film libraries. For details see PROJECT GNOME, page 29. PROJECT SEDAN (1962). 8 minutes, color. Produced by the USAEC's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. For sale by W. A. Palmer Films, at $39.10 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. San Francisco. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters, field