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The Fuel of the Future: Making Plutonium Fuel for EBR-II (1964)
Catalog Description: Electrical power to heat and light American homes and industries in the future will be furnished by plutonium. This program reports on plutonium, one of the eleven man-made elements, which as a future source of fuel will produce two million times more energy than coal. Plutonium did not exist on earth until less than a quarter-century ago when it was born in a nuclear reactor. Born in a wartime program to obtain material for the atomic bomb, plutonium is finding important peacetime uses because it is a potent nuclear fuel. In fact, 99 percent of all uranium that is mined must be converted into plutonium in a reactor in order for mankind to use its latent energy. It has been estimated that the reserve of uranium that can be converted into plutonium represents hundreds of times more energy than the nation’s combined reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas. Against this background of the importance of plutonium, the program shows some of the elaborate precautions that must be taken in handling it. Plutonium is highly toxic. It burns easily in air. Its metallurgical properties make it extremely difficult to work with. At the Plutonium Fabrication Building, the cameras capture the elaborate precautions employed, revealing how plutonium is combined with uranium and other elements and shaped into wire-thin rods of fuel. As the program points out, 25 years ago the word plutonium could not be found in the dictionary, but tomorrow - through scientific research - the word plutonium will be as common as the words coal and oil are today.
This is an old Atomic Energy Commission "Challenge Series" film, filmed at the Argonne National Lab.
Publishers:
National Educational Television
Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Reporter: Norman Ross
Starring: Arthur Shuck and Frank Foote from ANL
They add Molybdenum, Rubidium, Rhodium, Palladium, Niobium, Zirconium
Contents:
- 0:00 Into
- 1:34 Plutonium Fabrication Building at ANL
- 2:32 Loading Pu into glovebox line
- 04:23 Weighing the Pu
- 5:40 Arthur Shuck explains Pu additives
- 06:52 Frank Foote explains Pu history, usage, and challenges
- 10:24 EBR-II fuel assemblies
- 12:10 EBR-II diagram
- 13:45 Helium gloveboxes
- 15:07 Nuclear Safety Controls and Crit Safety
- 17:27 Glovebox processes for Pu fuel fabrication
- 18:00 Injection casting furnace
- 19:01 Visual inspection of plutonium castings
- 19:30 Machining to length
- 20:29 Description of analysis
- 21:04 Using a sodium extruder for sodium bond
- 21:57 Loading the fuel pin into jacket (cladding)
- 22:40 Putting in oven to melt sodium
- 23:05 Arc-welding the closure plug
- 24:20 Sealing in triple-sealed plastic pouch
- 25:29 Leak and electrical testing of fuel pins
- 26:24 Conclusions and capabilities of Plutonium
- 27:35 Exit credits
This is an old Atomic Energy Commission "Challenge Series" film, filmed at the Argonne National Lab.
Publishers:
National Educational Television
Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Reporter: Norman Ross
Starring: Arthur Shuck and Frank Foote from ANL
They add Molybdenum, Rubidium, Rhodium, Palladium, Niobium, Zirconium
Contents:
- 0:00 Into
- 1:34 Plutonium Fabrication Building at ANL
- 2:32 Loading Pu into glovebox line
- 04:23 Weighing the Pu
- 5:40 Arthur Shuck explains Pu additives
- 06:52 Frank Foote explains Pu history, usage, and challenges
- 10:24 EBR-II fuel assemblies
- 12:10 EBR-II diagram
- 13:45 Helium gloveboxes
- 15:07 Nuclear Safety Controls and Crit Safety
- 17:27 Glovebox processes for Pu fuel fabrication
- 18:00 Injection casting furnace
- 19:01 Visual inspection of plutonium castings
- 19:30 Machining to length
- 20:29 Description of analysis
- 21:04 Using a sodium extruder for sodium bond
- 21:57 Loading the fuel pin into jacket (cladding)
- 22:40 Putting in oven to melt sodium
- 23:05 Arc-welding the closure plug
- 24:20 Sealing in triple-sealed plastic pouch
- 25:29 Leak and electrical testing of fuel pins
- 26:24 Conclusions and capabilities of Plutonium
- 27:35 Exit credits
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The Alchemist's Dream: Argonne National Laboratory's Hot Lab (1965)
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This is a 1965 US Atomic Energy Commission film. The setting is Argonne National Laboratory's hot lab. Description: Transmutation of metals, the dream of the alchemists in the Middle Ages, is shown and explained in its nuclear science context by members of the Argonne Chemistry Division. A minute quantity of berkelium is produced by bombarding curium with deuterons from a cyclotron. The berkeli...
The Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment (1958)
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A documentary describing the OMRE, a nuclear reactor experiment that operated in Idaho at the National Reactor Testing Station (now INL) from 1957-1963. Sponsored by: Mikal Bøe Translation and narration by: Shirly Rodriguez Rojas Coordinated by: Nick Touran, whatisnuclear.com More info: whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-12-13-organic-moderated-reactor-experiment-film.html The original soundtrack was ...
Operating Experience, Dresden Nuclear Power Station (1964)
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This technical film reports on the routine, day-to-day operation of the Dresden Nuclear Power Station and points up the success of the boiling water nuclear-electric power station. Dresden's four years of operating experience are reviewed, and the power station is examined in terms of dependability, safety, ease of operation, and ease of maintenance. Digitized by whatisnuclear.com. More info wh...
Restoration of the NRX Reactor: The First Meltdown (1959)
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In 1952, the first nuclear reactor runaway occurred at NRX in Canada, melting fuel and disabling the reactor. A major effort was undertaken to fix the reactor and bring it back online. Famously, this is the reactor that Jimmy Carter worked on when he was a young sailor in the Navy, sent by Captain Rickover. More details: whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-11-13-restoration-of-nrx.html Catalog Record: ...
ASTR Tower Experiment: The Nuclear Reactor that Flew
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This is a December 1958 film covering experiments related to nuclear-powered flight. They operated the Airborne Shielded Test Reactor (ASTR) aboard the Nuclear Test Aircraft (NTA) and then lifted the reactor and crew compartment into the air on a giant tower to better understand shielding impacts without the airframe. Digitized by whatisnuclear.com. Thanks to Gil Brueckner for making this happe...
Adventures in the Atomic Archives: How I found and digitized old nuclear films
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This is the story about how I discovered fascinating archival nuclear films in the National Archives and started getting them digitized and posted online. I gave this talk at the NIRMA symposium in Vegas in August 2024 and wanted to get a version of it posted online for you all, so this is it. Digital museum: whatisnuclear.com/museum/ Contents: - 0:00 Intro - 01:35 What is whatisnuclear - 03:59...
Measuring the natural radioactivity of a Torbernite mineral from the DRC with a Geiger counter
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Here's a nice sample of uranium-containing Torbernite mineral. It's naturally radioactive. I tried the UV light as well but it did not respond to that.
Naval Research Laboratory Reactor (1958)
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The film presents a guided tour through the Naval Research Laboratory's nuclear research reactor facility in Washington, DC. All visible components are pictured and described; composition of fuel elements, core assembly, and methods of exposing samples are explained by animation. This was a HEU swimming-pool type research reactor. This film was presented at the 1958 "Atoms For Peace" conference...
Army Package Power Reactor
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Historical US Atomic Energy Commission film produced in 1957 showing the development of small air-transportable field-assembled nuclear power plant to power remote military bases. In particular, the prototype package reactor at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia is shown. This reactor became to be known as SM-1. The film was digitized as part of whatisnuclear.com's film preservation and publication efforts,...
Operating Experience, Indian Point: world's first Thorium-fueled commercial reactor (1964)
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This is a film from the third international "Atoms for Peace" conference in 1964 summarizing Indian Point 1, which as originally operated as a Thorium-fueled reactor. It was built and operated 35 miles from NYC. This was digitized by whatisnuclear.com thanks to Last Energy. whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-03-16-six-early-nuclear-films.html Original 16mm film courtesy of the US National Archives. 00...
Operating Experience, Yankee Rowe nuclear reactor (1964)
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This is a film from the third international "Atoms for Peace" conference in 1964 summarizing the operational experience of the Yankee Rowe reactor in Massachusetts. This was digitized by whatisnuclear.com thanks to Last Energy. whatisnuclear.com/news/2024-03-16-six-early-nuclear-films.html Original 16mm film courtesy of the US National Archives. 00:00 Intro 01:15 Summary of reactor equipment 02...
Atomic Power and the United States (1959)
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This is a nontechnical film for intermediate through college-level audiences. It summarizes activities of both the government and private industry in the program for the development of economic production of electric power with atomic energy. It compares conventional and nuclear approaches, and by animation and live action explains six important nuclear power projects. It outlines industry's co...
Nuclear Energy Goes Rural: The Elk River Reactor in Minnesota (1963)
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This film presents the background, planning, and construction of the Elk River Reactor for Minnesota's Rural Cooperative Power Association. After the rural background and setting are established, the planning of the reactor is shown. Animation is used to explain the principle of the boiling water reactor with conventional superheated steam. A comparison is made with the hot air heating system u...
Demo of making electricity with coil, crank, and Stirling engine
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I did this talk early on in the pandemic as part of a kid's event for the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. I hook up my oscilloscope to a coil of wires and show that you can move electrons around with a magnet. Originally from the Engineering/Expo on May 29, 2020.
The story of the first electricity generated by a nuclear reactor ever
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The story of the first electricity generated by a nuclear reactor ever
Art Rupp oral history: 60,000 Curies of Strontium-90 made lightning in cell
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Art Rupp oral history: 60,000 Curies of Strontium-90 made lightning in cell
BONUS for Puerto Rico - Boiling Nuclear Superheat Reactor
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BONUS for Puerto Rico - Boiling Nuclear Superheat Reactor
MH-1A: Floating nuclear power plant, STURGIS: Dockside testing report
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MH-1A: Floating nuclear power plant, STURGIS: Dockside testing report
MH-1A: Floating nuclear power plant, STURGIS: Construction report
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MH-1A: Floating nuclear power plant, STURGIS: Construction report
Remote Repair and Modification of the HRE-2 Core Vessel
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Remote Repair and Modification of the HRE-2 Core Vessel
The New Power - The Story of the National Reactor Testing Station (now INL)
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The New Power - The Story of the National Reactor Testing Station (now INL)
PM-1 Nuclear Power Plant - the radar-powering microreactor in Wyoming from 1962
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PM-1 Nuclear Power Plant - the radar-powering microreactor in Wyoming from 1962
Flying is radioactive: taking my Geiger counter on a commercial flight
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Flying is radioactive: taking my Geiger counter on a commercial flight
ATOMS AT WORK: THE LATIN AMERICAN EXHIBIT
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ATOMS AT WORK: THE LATIN AMERICAN EXHIBIT
A drum of nuclear fuel can power 66,000 homes for a year and offset 272,000 tonnes of CO2
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A drum of nuclear fuel can power 66,000 homes for a year and offset 272,000 tonnes of CO2
Operating Experience, Hallam Nuclear Power Facility (1964)
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Operating Experience, Hallam Nuclear Power Facility (1964)
Hallam Nuclear Power Facility - the Sodium Graphite Reactor in Nebraska (1963)
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Hallam Nuclear Power Facility - the Sodium Graphite Reactor in Nebraska (1963)
300 roetgens, not great, pretty terrible
so they dumped a million gallons of radioactive water onto the ground and let it filter into a creek
6:04 - "Here's my radioactive urine sample..."
I'm retired now, but I know how that camel feels!🤣
This is legitimately amazing
29:49.... Jeez!!.... Neutron bombardment of a fissile material, ( IE: Fission) can be SUCH a violent process, and happen SO fast, (this was a high-speed event of less than a second, captured by fast cameras that slowed the event down considerably) when seemingly that nothing physical even touched the object. (Except the strikingly tiny neutrons) It is SO amazing to me that such TINY objects can wreak such havoc, and release such IMMENSE amounts of power/energy. The energy storage devices that us humans have invented up to current day, (2025) are SUCH low power/density when compared to the power of mother nature and the atom. A Lipo battery explosion is NOTHING compared to if that was a same sized rectangle of atoms all releasing their energy in a chain reaction. A single brick of atoms the size of a typical R/C plane lipo battery would destroy an entire large city if all the atoms inside it were split. Simply awe inspiring!! 😳
Interesting they realized liquid wastes were a large problem even in the mid 60s. Hanford has spent some ungodly amount of money on vitrification to clean up their mess of leaking tanks.
I really like the white hats the technicians wear 😌 like smurfs
Fun Facts: In the EBWR segment, the control room and most of the equipment shown was all INSIDE of the domed containment structure along with the reactor vessel. Thankfully, they don't do it that way anymore. The first commercial reactors were built at Dresden not far from Argonne East, and were largely based upon the EBWR. Once Dresden came online General Electric had the extreme cojones to file suit against Argonne for continuing to generate most of it's own power with the EBWR once Dresden came online. General Electric got it's way and Argonne began buying all of its power from them. For most of my 26 years working at Argonne, my office was in Bldg 331 (shown) right up against the containment structure, or across the drive where the heat exchangers were housed in Bldg 331A. This video was like old home week!
Wonderful! I am absolutely astounded that I have never seen this video before. I retired from Argonne after working there for 26 years and am acquainted with some of the people interviewed (and "Joe" and "Ruth"). I worked in every glovebox in building 200 M-Wing, and been inside the hot-cell cave complex where humans seldom tread. It was a fascinating place to work, and pretty safe, as long as you understood the physics involved and followed the rules. I noticed early on that Argonne didn't hire idiots to do any job. 😀
what a shitty design (and what a mess)
Fantastic video.
I wonder how far underground that goes? Those giant cooling towers suggest a huge underground mine. Or is that too cool water to cool fision?
Casually dropping _Fermi_ in there 😮
Ive walked around the old site for this at Fort Belvoir about ten years ago. they still had markers up showing where it was set up at.
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1600 lü yıllarda türkiyede ekmek pişirmek için bu tekneloji kullanılıyordu. O yıllarda tehlikeli olduğu anlaşıldı ve organik yakıta yöneldiler.
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27:38 I loved the serious bit. But the end titles... OMG.....SO Groovy. ☢️😁🤗🤣🫡☢️
What a load of cock and bull. These people are really bad actors but pretty good comedians.
One megawatt thermal power? You need about 50 megawatts to equal the power of the B36's six piston engines, assuming about 40% efficiency in converting heat into mechanical power.
It's crazy that they recently didn't have power for what like a year
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 29 /12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong phim tai lieu lich su chien tranh thua da di chet het ca mot noi cut ra khoi dang bo nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai tai viet nam the gioi giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de am 4 dua con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap ti do hanh phuc ngay 29/12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong phim tai lieu lich su chien tranh tai xa nghi thiet huuen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi thua da di chet het ca mot noi cut ra khoi dang bo nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de am 4 dua con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai viet nam the gioi het
lol wtf
Cong hoa xa hou chu nghia viet nam tu do hanh phuc ngay 29/12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong phim tai lieu lich su chien tranh thua da di chet mot noi cut ra khoi dang bo nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de am 4 dua con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nhakhanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 29 /12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong ok phim tai lieu lich su chien tranh thua da di chet ca mot noi cut khoi dang bo mot noi nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai tai viet nam the gioi giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de am 4 dua con de hoang thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 29/12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong lich su chien tranh thua da di chet het ca ho cut ra khoi dang nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai tai viet nam the gioi giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kha con de am 4 dua con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 29/12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong lich su chien tranh thua phai di chet ca ho cut ra khoi dang nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi tai viet nam the gjoi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai tai viet nam the gioi giao lai cho gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi vo hoang thi kja con de am 4 dua con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
Ooh, World Leader Donald J Maga Trump keep us safe.
Possibly the closest we could get to perpetutuality of power, (Good)... but alas with the possibility of prolification (Bad).
Love content like this.
Very interesting and informative.
An ingot of strontium 90 was discarded in the mountains of Georgia (the country) and some individuals came across it in the Winter and they slept by it for warmth.
Why do these people sound like robots 😫? Interesting video though.
Especially during the atomic chart sequence you can see numerous tiny flashes. Those are Gamma Rays interacting with the film. Not a safe environment.
About 40 feet away from where those guys were standing was cell M1. Cell M1 housed a cobalt 60 source that, in those days, consisted of well over one million curies of cobalt 60. When I retired from Argonne it was still over 200,000 curies if I remember correctly. Working in building 200 M-Wing was the place at Argonne where you were most likely to get physically contaminated (rather than just irradiated). Those lab coats they are wearing and not just to look "sciency", they are there to protect your street clothing from getting contaminated. Every time you exit the lab area you scan your hands and feet, and then scan your clothing. Anything that is contaminated you lose permanently. Depending on the area you are working in, the PPE (personal protective equipment) that is required ranges from a lab coat at minimum, to full coveralls, shoe covers, cap, and respirator.
And We are Still Colliding Atoms to the Present Day!!! No Scientist Will Ever be Happy Until We Destroy The Whole Earth And Whatever Else With These Psychopath Experiments !!!
Hand me differential geometry, and I will hand you the philosophers stone.
13.52 beetle ahhhh
Be glad that uranium cannot explode.... nuclear weapons are technically a brutal hoax
Cong hoa xa hoi chu nghia viet nam doc lap tu do hanh phuc ngay 25/12/2005 giay to ho so mat trong lich su chien tranh thua da di chet het ca ho cut khoi dang nha nuoc tai viet nam the gioi am duong tren duoi trong ngoai giao lai gia dinh hoang xuan hoi huyen me hoang thi kha con de hoang xuan khoi con de hoang xuan thao vo hoang thi nha khanh con de hoang xuan anh dung tai xa nghi thiet huyen nghi loc tinh nghe an viet nam the gioi het
if you look closely you can see the dripping green matrix code in this video it's spooky
We have thrown it all away.. for windmills 😞
wouldn't the hydrocarbons break down in high radiation? sludge and varnish?
Wonderful video, simply wonderful!
Chalk River? More like Polluted Tarp River. That tarp was on sale at Canadian Tire for like 60% off. Friggin good deals there bud.
Świetna wypowiedź i super praca by udostępniać tak świetne filmy .❤ Serdecznie pozdrawiam z 🇵🇱
Świetne są te filmy 🎉❤🎉 Pozdrawiam serdecznie.🇵🇱
#hugbees please consider this audiovisual documentary the presenter is an absolute stud