16mm film combined catalog (1972)

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58 RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS This film is a step-by-step record of construction of the world's first privately owned heavy-water research reactor, designed and built by ACF Industries, Inc., for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a 1000-kw heavy-water-moderated and -cooled CP-5 type reactor, producing fluxes in excess of 10 13 neutrons/cm 2 /sec. It includes a special medical therapy room providing new approaches to nuclear medical research techniques. The film shows construction phases of the reactor, associated nuclear equipment, containment shell, and radiation shielding. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY REACTOR (1958). 21 minutes, color. Produced by the U. S. Navy Photographic Center for the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. For sale by DuArt Film Labora- tories, at $67.05 per print. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries and the U. S. Navy. Cleared for television. This semitechnical film is a guided tour through the Naval Research Laboratory's pool type, 100-kw research reactor facility in Washing- ton. All visible components are pictured and described. Action includes startup, operation of controls, and underwater shots of the Cerenkov radiation. Composition of fuel elements, assembly of a core, and methods of exposing samples are explained by cutaway drawings and animation. Several experiments, representative of the type of research performed with the reactor, are described. NUCLEAR REACTORS FOR RESEARCH (1955). 15 minutes, color. Produced by Atomics International. Not for sale. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries or Atomics International, P. O. Box 309, Canoga Park, Calif. 91305. Cleared for television. This film explains the basic design of the small homogeneous water- boiler reactor type and describes the components and the various steps in the construction of a small homogeneous reactor. Operation of the reactor is described, and research uses are illustrated. OAK RIDGE RESEARCH REACTOR (1958). 20 minutes, color. Produced by USAEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For sale by Byron Motion Pictures, at $65.68 per print, including ship- ping case, F.O.B. Washington, D. C. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters, field libraries, and Oak Ridge Na- tional Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Cleared for television. This film summarizes the components, facilities, uses, and operation of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor, a tank type, heterogeneous reac- tor, immersed in a pool, designed to operate at 20 to 30 Mw. I