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Post-WWII - 1946, Atomic Energy, USA: K-25 Plant exteriors; Handling Radioactive Isotopes (?)

Reel Number: 221803-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946,1940s

Country: USA

Location: OAK RIDGE,Tennessee

TC Begins: 20:07:40

TC Ends: 20:12:41

Duration: 00:05:01

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWII - 1946, Atomic Energy, USA: K-25 Plant exteriors; Handling Radioactive Isotopes (?) LS Pan Oak Ridge, Tennessee Atomic Energy Commission industrial buildings; MS pan rear showing guard towers. 20:08:21 LS from hillside across K-25 uranium enrichment plant complex; pan closer from above. 20:09:12 View thru & panning barbed wire on top of metal net fencing . 20:09:29 Interior w/ monitor on conveyor system visible w/ mirror above. Technicians beside lead box & man lowering radioactive isotope capsule on rod; other lead containers brought in on cart radioactive & isotope capsules place inside as radiation level monitored & capped. 20:10:51 CU speedometer-like monitor / counter turning. Technician on telephone turns key & needle on dial drops; CU dial & electric meter responding to shut-down. 22:11:09 View into heavy storage container for wet materials. Flasks w/ white powder removed by technician wearing heavy gloves, placed on table & poured thru funnel into tube which is inserted into circular lead container & compressed w/ large machine. CU of resulting small compressed billet, then placed into metal tube. Atomic Age; History; Nuclear Science; Manufacturing Technology; Security; Secrets; 1940s; 1950s; Cold War; Post-WW2; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Please send corrections & additions to the following e-mail. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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