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72 SAFETY, WASTE DISPOSAL, AND MONITORING loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This technical film on reactor safety investigations involves use of the Special Power Excursion Reactor Test (SPERT), a tank type, atmo- spheric pressure, heterogeneous reactor. SPERT was designed pri- marily for the study of reactor kinetics and safety parameters in functionally similar reactors. The film illustrates a number of in- tentionally induced power excursions. SRE CORE RECOVERY FOLLOWING FUEL-ELEMENT DAMAGE (1962). 29V 2 minutes, color. Produced by Atomics International for the USAEC. For sale by General Film Laboratories, at $95.00 per print, including shipping case, F.O.B. Hollywood. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. This film, with animation, describes (1) design features of the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) near Santa Susana, California (designed, constructed, and operated for the USAEC by Atomics International); (2) important operations attainments; (3) circumstances in 1959 which resulted in severe damage to the reactor core and release of about 10,000 curies of fission-product activity; (4) equipment, methods, and procedures employed to contain gaseous atmospheres, to remove radioactive debris (including pieces of fuel elements from the reactor system), and to replace affected core-moderator cans; and (5) modifi- cations made to prevent similar future difficulties. Included are actual motion-picture scenes of the highly radioactive reactor core and animation of fuel-element damage and breakage. A relatively small number of men performed the recovery-work operations; none of the men received more than the standard permissible amount of radiation exposure, and there were no physical injuries. Demonstrated was the fact that extensive maintenance work can be conducted on the entire plant complex of a sodium-cooled nuclear-power reactor with a reasonable degree of effort. Development of the devices and tech- niques successfully utilized occupies an important position in reactor technology and provides significant information for other types of nuclear facilities. TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, PART II, ACCI- DENTS (1965). 34V 2 minutes, black and white. Produced under the technical direction of the USAEC's Division of Operational Safety. For sale by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service, at $51.00 per print, in- cluding shipping case. Available for loan (free) from USAEC headquarters and field libraries. Cleared for television. The film, in the form of a lecture by Commission Safety Engineer Francis L. Brannigan, discusses the control of transportation acci-