GENERAL
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US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Propaganda movie from the early 50's on the first years of the Atomic Age: the development of nuclear weapons and US attempts to stop proliferation. (not entirely recorded)
(15 min./English/early '50s) (Code: 044/05)PROJECT GNOME
About the first nuclear explosion of the American Plowshare Program for the development and use of peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs). With the use of animation scientific and technical problems are shown. Produced by IAEA
(29 min./English/1963) (Code: 040/01)THE 10.000 YEAR TEST
One of licensing-proceedings for the nuclear waste-dump at Yucca Mountain, Nevada USA, includes a scientific test about what happens with the area the next 10.000 years. With computer models they try to predict it.
(50 min./English/3-1990) (Code: 007/07)NOG STEEDS AKTIEF
(Still active)
Japanese documentary on decommissioning of nuclear reactors and possible storage-techniques of that material. Three examples: JPDR & Rokasho-storage at Japan, Shippingport USA and Gentilly-1 in Canada.
(45 min./Dutch/2-1991) (Code: 010/03)VERVLOEKT DOOR DE BOM
(Damned by the bomb)
About the consequences of the nuclear tests at the Nevada site US and especially for the city of Saint George. Not very good, it looks like it's over because the test are now no longer held at surface.
(30 min./Dutch/11-1991) (Code: 017/08)HOW TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH
About the resistance from the Western-Shoshones against the efforts to expropriate their land (E.g. for a nuclear waste dump). Main attention on the legal proceedings. Very good.
(55 min./English spoken-Dutch subtitled/8-1992) (Code: 025/01)TÖDLICHE STRAHLEN
(Deadly radiation)
About the tests in the US with radioactive substances on humans in the years 40s/50s But also on emissions (and consequences) at Hanford and on nuclear weapons tests and deportation of indigenous people at Bikini.
(30 min./German/4-1994) (Code: 040/02)no title
Short documentary on American past radiation experiments This time about Pu-injections to sick and mentally handicapped.
(13 min./English/3-1994) (Code: 052/01)THE BURIAL GROUNDS
Assignment Special. (2-parts) BBC documentary on the consequences of 50 years of nuclear weapons production in the US. Part 1: waste and contamination of the production-plants: 1200 sites are radioactive contaminated; clean-up will be the most costly operation ever. Also about the search for storage facilities
(45 min./English/3-1995) (Code: 051/01)TOOTH FAIRY PROJECT
Report about the US Tooth Fairy Project: it collects children’s teeth to analyse historic radioactive strontium emissions (which shows in teeth). Results show increase in emissions and cancer near nuclear reactors (prevailing wind-directions)
(8 min./German/5-2001) (Code: 128/08)NEIS (Nuclear Energy Information Service)
Lecture by David Kraft during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and Children’s health
(15 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 150/01)NPRI (Nuclear Policy Research Institute)
Lecture by Helen Caldicott during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and Children’s health
(15 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 150/02)PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility)
Lecture by Andrew Kanter during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and Children’s health
(12 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 150/03)NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL
Lecture by Kevin Kamps during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and children’s health
(23 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 150/07)CITIZEN ACTION
Lecture by Wenonah Hauter during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and children’s health
(17 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 151/01)RECYCLING NUCLEAR WASTE
Lecture by Diane D’Arrigo during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and children’s health
(20 min./Eng/10-2004) (Code: 151/05)TMI HARRISBURG
MENE TEKEL HARRISBURG
Especially about the psychological consequences of the accident at Three Mile Island at March 1979. The fear, the evacuation and the lack of information. Also about falsifying documents.
(45 minutes/German/3-1989) (Code: 006/01)THREE MILE ISLAND REVISITED
This powerful documentary challenges the claims of the nuclear industry and government that "no one died" as a result of the core meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. It utilizes the testimony of area residents and scientific findings to reveal that deaths, especially from cancer and birth defects in children, have been widespread since the 1979 accident. Indeed, it notes that Three Mile Island's owner has been quietly settling numerous damage cases brought by persons seriously impacted by the accident.
(29 minutes/English/1992) (Code: 045/01)DIE BEINAHE GAU VON THREE MILE ISLAND
(The almost super-catastrophe at Three Mile Island)
This Arte documentary gives a good and comprehensive overview of the 1979 accident and it’s consequences. Many interviews and archive footage.
(43 minutes/German/1999) (Code: 155/01)EEN BEZORGD LICHAAM
(A troubled body)
A documentary about the psychological consequences of radiation accidents, which can (and will) manifest itself on a physical level. Reports on Chernobyl and Harrisburg
(25 minutes/Dutch/2-1999) (Code: 143/05)THREE MILE ISLAND AND CANCER
Lecture by Steven Wing during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and Children’s health
(25 minutes/English/10-2004) (Code: 148/05)DOWNWIND FROM TMI
Lecture by Judith Johnsrud during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and children’s health
(20 minutes/English/10-2004) (Code: 151/02)IMPACT OF TMI
Lecture by Mary Osborn Ouassiai during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and children’s health
(20 minutes/English/10-2004) (Code: 151/03)OTHER FACILITIES
ATOMIC POWER AT SHIPPINGPORT
Producer: Audio Productions. Sponsor: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission / Westinghouse Electric Company. Tour of the first commercial nuclear power plant
(2 parts: 29 minutes/English/1958) (Code: 166/01)THE DARK CIRCLE
Very impressive movie made by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver about the atomic age. Much attention to Rocky Flats and Diablo Canyon and the links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Also about the protest in the US.
(72 minutes/English spoken-Dutch subtitled/1982) (Code: 004/02)HANFORD
About the nuclear-weapon complex Hanford. More and more beco-mes known: deformed cattle, leukaemia and contamination.
(10 minutes/German/12-1988) (Code: 005/03)GREENRUN
Newsnight documentary about tests and experiments on people in hospitals and jails (US in 50's). Also on Greenrum test at Hanford where 7000 curie radioactivity was discharged to monitor the spread of it. Good.
(25 minutes/English/2-1994) (Code: 042/02)NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
(Lastpakken)
Australian documentary on whistleblowers; one of them is employee of Hanford (US). About safety issues there.
(45 minutes/Dutch/6-1995) (Code: 052/04)ACCELERATING HANFORD CLEANUP
“Drawing on the ideas that emerged from a year-long partnership with its contractors and state and federal regulators, DOE developed a plan for cleanup that dramatically reduces risks to people and the environment” Produced by DOE
(15 minutes/English/200?) (Code: 166/05)NOWHERE TO RUN
Documentary on Indian Point US, produced for Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC). It clearly explains all aspects of the issue, including security from attack, the oversight role of the NRC, the plant's troubled operational history, potential dangers of the spent fuel storage, the evacuation plan, the limited capabilities to treat radiological contamination cases, potential economic impact of closure, closure and energy production from alternative, renewable, environmentally friendly sources.
(21 minutes/English/2003) (Code: 137/01)YUCCA MOUNTAIN
“The making of an underground laboratory“. Description of laboratory built in Yucca mountain to test for storage of nuclear waste underground Produced by DOE
(12 minutes/English/2004) (Code: 166/03)
NOG STEEDS AKTIEF
(Still active)
Japanese documentary on decommissioning of nuclear reactors and possible storage-techniques of that material. Three examples: JPDR & Rokasho-storage at Japan, Shippingport USA and Gentilly-1 in Canada.
(45 minutes/Dutch/2-1991) (Code: 010/03)URANBERGBAU: DER HEIMLICHE SUPER-GAU
(Uranium mining: the secret catastrophe)
Uranium mining at the former-GDR, Namibia, Canada and Australia. Focused on consequences for the inhabitants/workers, the indigenous people and the environment.
(30 minutes/German/6-1991) (Code: 015/04)
THE GOIANIA INCIDENT
Partly dramatised documentary about the Goiania (Brazil) incident involving a radiation source which contaminated many people with Caesium-137 in September 1987. Several people died
(35 min./English/1996) (Code: 081/02)’T IS EEN RAMP
(It’s a disaster)
Shortened version of the BBC documentary The Goiania incident. involving a radiation source which contaminated many people with Caesium-137 in September 1987.
(20 min./Dutch/2-1997) (Code: 081/04)