Public Information Materials
There are, it seems, few human endeavors in which more of an attempt has been made, and with less effect,
to inform the public than that of atomic energy.
Here we have collected a variety of materials dedicated to that purpose, mostly of the character of ephemera
.
The Monthly Information Bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
This magazine was published monthly beginning in November of 1956, into the 1980s.
From number 259 (May 1978) onward, it was printed in A4 size, with a photograph on the front cover.
We have a considerable group of these, covering years from 1966 to 1984, which is gradually being scanned.
We are always in search of further issues not in hand.
Simply to avoid confusion, the popular–consumption editions of the Authority annual reports, also titled ATOM,
will also be found here.
Power Station Booklets
Many publications, ranging from single sheets of paper describing how to find the visitor centers
(alas now mostly closed) to elaborate booklets full of photographs and diagrams, were published by or for specific
nuclear power stations.
We have been particularly assiduous in attempting to obtain and scan these.
Other Scanned Materials
Audiovisual Materials
(toobnix.org is a
Peertube instance hosted by the
SDF Public Access Unix System)
From Film
- The Atom and Archaeology
(radiocarbon dating and allied topics)
- Fuel for the Future
(animated, British, early 1960s)
- Energy : The Nuclear Alternative
- The French Atomic Effort
(early 1960s, English–language version of a film produced in French, shows Marcoule production reactors)
- The Atom : Big Boom in Natural Gas Recovery
(Project Rulison — thermonuclear fracking!)
- For the Good of Man
(Soviet propaganda film, English–language version)
- U as in Uranium, Part 1, From Mine to Power Station
(U comme Uranium, Partie 1, de la Mine a la Centrale — French language, covers mining, enrichment, fuel fabrication)
- Nuclear Electricity
(Electricite Nucleaire — French language, shows early gas–cooled reactors)
- Fessenheim : Year 1
(Fessenheim An 1 — French language, newsreel about the first PWR station of the Messmer Plan)
- Pellicule et Noyau
(title is an untranslatable pun — French language, covers PWR power stations, using the French–built
Tihange plant in Belgium as an example)
- Uranium Isotope Separation by Gaseous Diffusion
(La Separation des Isotopes de l’Uranium [Diffusion Gazeuse] — French language)
- Those Touched by Uranium
(Touchés par l’Uranium — Swedish telefilm overdubbed into French)
- Atomic Electroenergetics
(Russian language)
- The Discovery of Radioactivity
(La Scoperta della Radioattività — Italian language version of a film produced in Germany)
- Nuclear Fusion : Research Toward a New Energy Source
(Kernfusion : Erforschung einer neuen Energiequelle — German language)
- Nuclear Fission of Uranium
(Kernspaltung des Urans — silent, German–language captions)
- Operation of a Nuclear Power Plant
(Arbeitsweise eines Kernkraftwerkes — silent, German–language captions)
From VHS
From DVD
