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RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS 59 RESEARCH REACTORS — USA (1958). 38 minutes, color. Produced for the USAEC by the Los Angeles Division, Lytle Corp. Prints for sale (made from a master) from Byron Motion Pictures, at $104.06 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. Washington, D. C. Prints for sale (made from the original) from Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, at about $167.18. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This semitechnical film presents, via live action and animation, a summary of the major types of research reactors — swimming pool, tank, water boiler, and graphite moderated — with descriptions of their uses in research, industry, chemistry, physics, metallurgy, biology, and medicine. Used as illustrations are the following reactors: CP-5 (Argonne), University of Michigan reactor, Omega West (Los Alamos), (Armour), Brookhaven, Argonaut (Argonne), 10-watt solution type (Atomics International), and the solid-homogeneous (Aerojet- General Nucleonics). RESTORATION OF THE NRX REACTOR (1959). 23 minutes, black and white. Produced, under the close technical supervision of, the USAEC and the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service. For sale by the pro- ducer, at $35.22 per print, including shipping case. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This film discusses the 14-month repair and restoration of the NRX Reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, following a rapid supe rope rational power level excursion (the first nuclear reactor runaway in history) and describes the 1959 safety system of the 40-Mw reactor. Film foot- age made during actual restoration is supplemented by studio explana- tion with a reactor model. Depicted are the unusual and hazardous problems complicating repairs: high levels of radioactive contamina- tion in work areas; continuation of water cooling on high irradiated fuel rods to prevent auto- ignition; creation of disposal facilities in subzero weather for a gross quantity of cooling water mixed with highly active fission products; corrosion-inhibiting preservation of irradiated fuel rods; decontamination of large pieces of equipment and reactor components; and rebuilding a reactor that had not been designed initially for major repair. Illustrated are unique methods and tools for locating radioactive products lodged in piping and auxiliary equipment, snaring and removing broken pieces of radioactive fuel rods, sup- pressing large areas of residual building contamination, and removing and decontaminating equipment, shielding, and heavy water. In addition to persons interested in nuclear reactors, the film has particular value to reactor technology and operation for assessing safety system