| ATOM POWER STEPS UP A look at the new gas-cooled reactor being built at Windscale, Cumberland. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5832 |
| Catalog #: | 11579 | |
| Clip Number: | 11579-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 60/46 | |
| Timecode: | 01:20:49 - 01:22:05 | |
| Location: | Cumberland | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Misc. INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Atomic / Nuclear LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | Atom power steps up. New gas-cooled reactor project. Windscale, Cumberland. Great shots of Windscale Atomic Energy Plant. M/S new gas-cooled reactor still being built. Various shots inside the reactor of workers welding the inside of the pressure vessel. M/S stubs in the top dome of the pressure vessel through which the fuel elements will be charged and discharged, C/U man checking the stubs. Banks of boiler tubes are inserted in the heat exchangers which are being built at the contractor's works. M/S one of the giant 90 ton heat exchangers arriving on the site. M/S reactor into which the heat exchangers are put. M/S heat exchanger being lifted into position by a derrick on a swivel. Camera pans along as it is lifted. M/S heat exchanger suspended above the reactor. M/S girders inside reactor. Camera pans across pressure vessels inside the reactor. M/S's men working on top of the reactor. M/S reactor vessel. | |
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