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42 POWER REACTORS beginning in 1955 to its completion in 1959. The film shows major stages of development, including clearance of the site 47 miles south- west of Chicago; groundbreaking: construction of foundations, sphere, and other buildings; manufacture of the containment vessel and fuel; shipment and arrival of major components; installation of the reactor core, reactor vessel, and turbine-generator; testing of completed installations; and the station's "going critical." The film also includes scenes relating to development work for Dresden carried out at GE's Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory near Pleasanton, Calif. ATOMIC WEATHERMAN: STRONTIUM-90 ISOTOPIC APPLICATIONS (1961). 18V 2 minutes, color. Produced for the USAEC by the Martin Marietta Corporation. For sale by Capital Film Laboratories, at $103.90 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. Washington, D. C. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This semitechnical film describes the world's first radioisotope- powered weather station, which is operating unattended at a remote site in the Canadian Arctic. The "atomic" weather station is powered by a thermoelectric unit in which the heat from the decay of 90 Sr is directly converted into electricity. The film shows the major steps in the iden- tification, testing, and preparation of the 90 Sr titanite compound; the loading of the radioisotope source in the weather-station generator; the principle of direct conversion of heat into electricity; the operation of the generator; the weather-station equipment for sensing, data pro- cessing, and control and transmission; the final testing; the 4000-mile journey north into the remote Canadian Arctic aboard an icebreaker; the weather-station installation; and the successful transmission of weather data. The film explains the principal methods of handling radioactive wastes from nuclear-reactor operations; the techniques for recovering valuable radioisotopes, such as 90 Sr; and the development of 90 Sr thermoelectric sources for unique small-scale power applica- tions. Brief information is also given on other applications of 90 Sr thermoelectric devices. BORAX: CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A BOILING WATER REACTOR (1955). 14 minutes, black and white. Produced by the USAF's Lookout Mountain Air Force Station for Argonne National Laboratory and the USAEC. For sale by Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, at $18.00 per print, in- cluding shipping case. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This picture may be considered a sequel to "Safety Experiments with a Boiling Reactor" (in this catalog). Based on the safety experiments, Argonne scientists proceeded to the next step: putting a generating