The Alchemist's Dream: Argonne National Laboratory's Hot Lab (1965)

This is a 1965 US Atomic Energy Commission film. The setting is Argonne National Laboratory's hot lab. Description: Transmutation of metals, the dream of the alchemists in the Middle Ages, is shown and explained in its nuclear science context by members of the Argonne Chemistry Division. A minute quantity of berkelium is produced by bombarding curium with deuterons from a cyclotron. The berkelium is separated and purified behind the thick walls of a newly constructed hot laboratory for research with man-made elements. Challenge series. Digitized (in pieces) by the University of Indiana: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_... National Archives Entry: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88089 Contents: 0:00 Intro/Credits 1:32 History of Transmutation 2:14 Radiation shielding and hot cells 2:52 Paul Fields at ANL explains 5:47 Cyclotron 8:38 Curium target setup 10:48 Cyclotron on 11:53 Harry Youngquist explains hot cell transfers 14:50 Chemical separations in hot cell 20:04 Chemical separations in glove box 21:48 Measurement and detection w/ Arnold Friedman 25:13 Conclusions 27:48 Exit credits Donald Stewart was in there too.