Summary: This issue of BRITISH CALENDAR is devoted to the topic of atomic energy.
Description: On April 5, 1963, Prince Philip uses a television link-up to simultaneously open the first British civil nuclear power stations at Berkeley and Bradwell. A potted history of nuclear power: Lord Cavendish, the Cavendish Laboratories at Oxford, Cockcroft and Walton splitting the atom in 1932; Old Rutherford. Explanation of radioactive isotopes - Cobalt 4. Gamma radiography and its practical applications eg in shipyard, checking pipeline welds in desert; checking contents levels in fire extinguishers, charting mud on the bed of the Thames. Food irradiation. Medical uses - cancer treatment, sterilising instruments. Nuclear fuel, possible replacement for coal. Calder Hall, opened by HM Queen in 1956; Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. Developments for commercial use at other centres: "Helen I" experimental rig (water-cooled reactor for use as marine propulsion unit), "JASON" naval research reactor at Royal Naval College Greenwich, atomic clock at National Physical Laboratory. Courses in atomic energy. International research work at Winfrith Heath - "VLADIMIR". New reactors in Tokyo and Rome built by British companies. Scenes of British atomic sites: Bradwell, Calder Hall, Chapelcross, advanced gas-cooled reactor at Windscale, Dounreay plutonium reactor.
Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Elizabeth II, Queen (person)
Philip, Prince (Duke of Edinburgh) (person)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: industry, British - power: nuclear energy (object name)
sciences, British - physics: nuclear research (object name)
equipment, British naval - propulsion (object name)
GB, England & Berkeley, Glos <atomic power station> (geography)
GB, England & Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex <atomic power station> (geography)
GB, England & London, SE <Greenwich - Royal Naval College> (geography)
GB, England & <National Physical Laboratory> (geography)
GB, England & Harwell, Oxon <Atomic Energy Research Establishment> (geography)
GB, England & Windscale, Cumb <Calder Hall atomic power station> (geography)
GB, England & Winfrith Heath, Dorset <atomic power station> (geography)
GB, Scotland & Annan area, Dumf <Chapelcross atomic power station> (geography)
GB, Scotland & Thurso area, Caith <Dounreay atomic power station> (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 420 ft; Running time: 12 mins
