Naval Research Laboratory Reactor (1958)
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- 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 (2nd International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy) in Geneva at the US technical exhibit.
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00:00 Introduction
01:34 Planning the Reactor
03:00 Construction
03:42 Visiting
04:02 Reactor description
06:40 Operations
08:20 Control room
10:17 Blue glow
11:20 Interlocks
11:35 Experiments
15:00 Pneumatic rabbit
16:38 Transfer doors to hot cell
17:24 Manipulator room
19:26 Conclusion - Věda a technologie
Bowties and slide rules, wild.
Thank you for digitizing these old celluloid gems. I thoroughly enjoy watching them. They could do so much back then. And pretty much all without computers.
My pleasure! They did apply some of the earliest digital computers to reactor design. The Atomic Energy Commission had a big one in the office in the mid-1950s. They were just huge mainframes.
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Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for imparting that knowledge on me. But of course still very limited compared to what we have today^^ And my favourite video of the lot is the "New Power - The story of the NRTS"
let me just eyeball this neutron beam onto my sample 12:23
"They would have had to have actually believed that the tsars would allow peace...!"
I would love to get to use those robot arms.
There are a few museums around where you can play with them, picking up marbles and stuff. If you're ever in the Snake River valley during summer, check out the EBR-I museum!
Is it fair conclusion that bowties, ties, cigarets are required to get things done? Somehow building things fast was possible back then (and safe and smart enough). Why have we lost this skill?
Good point. I may start wearing a bowtie to see if progress speeds up!
@@whatisnuclear- The whole team needs to wear them. Also, you have to smoke a pipe while sitting in the bath reading a newspaper. That’s like the old version of Jira.
um radiation conpletely messes up the dna and brain during development... so does teflon, emf and hormones...
plus schools didnt care to actually teach us anything over the last 100 years or so. much less critical thinking, science, chemistry or coding...
most of the population doesnt even know nuclear exists or what it is... or how safe its not at the current time.
workers are constantly exposed to 200-300cpm or more. and highly indoctrinated.
Respiratory disease and cancers ended this engineering trend