“ ATOMS FOR PEACE “ SOVIET UNION ATOMIC RESEARCH PROPAGANDA FILM NUCLEAR POWER & RADIATION 30474a

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Part 2: Distributed by Artkino Pictures, “Atoms for Peace” (1956) is a black-and-white propaganda film produced by the Moscow Popular Science Film Studio about nuclear power and its useful applications outside of armament. White doves fly over Moscow (1:31). Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant (1:39). Operators tend to nuclear reactors (2:10). Crane removes protective cask lid -- glow of radiation in water (2:42). Animation of lattice rods at bottom of reactor (3:06). Evolution of nuclear energy (3:26). Cross-section of reactor (5:36). Turbo generators (6:19). Production radioactive isotopes: men in white lab coats demonstrate how nuclear reactors can be used for nutrient bombardment of various materials, close-up details of reactor’s exterior elements (6:26). Switchboard operates reactor (7:43). Animation of what happens to irradiated material in the rod (7:51). Animation types of radiation: alpha, beta, gamma rays and electromagnetic radiation (8:33). Operator remotely controls removal of tube to prevent dangerous exposure, lowers sample into manhole where sample is removed (9:50). Two personnel check massive isotope container with special tool to ensure no radioactive substance on exterior (10:41). Interior ‘hot laboratory’ (11:11). Operator uses ‘manipulators’ that imitate movements from sealed chamber (12:00). Sample cuts by manipulators (15:06). Operating separators: close-up mechanized arms adding piece of sample to machine, pendulum swings as samples are removed from machine (15:14). Operating screw manipulator (16:38). Employee wears special radiation suit, checks manipulator (16:49). Row of employees using glass glove boxes (17:14). Safety measures and protective devices in the hot laboratory: barrier lowers stopping employee (17:37). Animation radioactive radiation of isotopes (18:05). Exterior Oncological Research Institute (18:16). Nurse turns wheel, slowly lowers cobalt gun (Eldorado Cobalt-60) treatment (18:33). Inner workings of cobalt gun (18:53). Examples tube sizes and shapes for radiation (19:58). Before-picture patient with facial tumor, contrast footage patient after radiation (20:51). Brachytherapy - radioactive needles stick out from storage case, female operator prepares needles from behind protective glass (21:17). Doctor inserts needles in operating theater (22:24). Mother and young daughter in doctors office for consultation, daughter has facial angioma (23:2). Female technician applies radioactive cobalt to mold from behind protective glass (24:25). Various sized vessels and bottles made of polyethylene (25:55). Polyethylene pieces treated with cobalt, lowered into vat, animated cross-section of container and process of radiation (26:42). Old Soviet Union truck from 1950s, perhaps GAZ-51, parked at oil production plant for oil prospecting (28:41). Interior of truck - apparatus with knobs and dials mounted in vehicle, wires connecting truck with prospecting site (28:44). Animation neutron emitter inside borehole, flux of neutrons going in all directions (29:42). Operator observes screen of oscillograph (30:01). Engineer reads photographic scrolls, similar to TOCO strip (30:41). Camera pans gamma defector scope device, factory lab preparations using device for experiment test defect in metal castings (31:11). Camera trails tool as experiment underway (32:11). Operator reviews film image of defects (32:45). Gamma Defectoscope (33:16). Electric welding, sparks fly in shipyard (33:22). Demonstration 1950s portable defector scope with radioactive cobalt at work (33:51). Hydraulic dredge at work, pipes transporting clay mixture to worksites (34:39). Special device under hood of pipe containing radioactive cobalt to determine density of clay (35:32). Mixture of water and earth poured from pipe into dam, employee looks on (36:33). Industrial textile mill: spools of yarn rapidly spin (36:42). Female operator manually cuts samples and weighs them for density (37:09). Close-up radioactive gallium (37:53). Operator feeds yarn into radioactive isotope device; weight recorded on graph (38:06). Female factory worker observes bottling device, radioactive counter keeps track of produced bottles (38:55). Researchers use radioactive tracer (39:54). Scientist attaches label to fish gills (40:16). Female lab attendant adds drops of radioactive phosphorus (40:48). Fisherman pull in net (41:06). Small fish placed into lab machine (41:24). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
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