This film, made on behalf of the Central Electricity Generating Board is part of the Bradford Technical College Collection and is about the Dungeness Nuclear Power Plant in Kent. There is footage explaining the basics of nuclear power, where it comes from, and how the power plant actually functions on a day-to-day basis. Title-Central Electricity Generating Board, South East Region. Title-Presents Title-This is Dungeness Shot of a power station on the sea coast-Dungeness on the Kent Coat. The...

This film, made on behalf of the Central Electricity Generating Board is part of the Bradford Technical College Collection and is about the Dungeness Nuclear Power Plant in Kent. There is footage explaining the basics of nuclear power, where it comes from, and how the power plant actually functions on a day-to-day basis. Title-Central Electricity Generating Board, South East Region. Title-Presents Title-This is Dungeness Shot of a power station on the sea coast-Dungeness on the Kent Coat. The voice over talks about the power station and how it is powered by nuclear energy. Shots of power station taken from air and going all around to show all angles. A bus pulls up beside a building and the voice over said that we firstly need to understand what is meant by nuclear or atomic energy. A man stands outside the door of the bus and helps several women out of it. A page with all the chemical elements comes up on screen and the voice over talks about what an atom is; some animations come up on screen in order to illustrate this. There is also an explanation as to where the energy comes from in nuclear energy and there are animations to explain the splitting of the atom. In the next scene a circular model with holes in the top is used to illustrate what a nuclear reactor looks like. A pair of hands indicates how fuel would be inserted into these holes and also how the reaction can be stopped immediately, if necessary. The voice over describes all of the steps. Next the camera watches as some men change the fuel blocks in the reactor through the reactor floor. The voice over describes the process and says that each of the fuel blocks have a life span of seven years. There is a sequence of shots showing how the spent fuel is stored in a specially treated water pond for one hundred days until most of the radioactivity has worn off. It is then rinsed off, put into a metal container and sent to be recycled appropriately. The film ends with the voice over saying that this is a glimpse into what you will find at a nuclear reactor and the physics behind it. There is a shot of the visitors leaving the power station and shots taken from above as the camera goes up into the air. Title-Script Amlin Productions Title-Ronald Thurman Title-Commentary Michael Aspel Title-Main animation by permission of The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Title-Directed by Stanley Gomm