FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Aerial site. Exterior Lucas Heights, Centre for Atomic Energy Research, VS people including some in white coats, entering various buildings. Exterior and interior nuclear reactor, scientists working. Workings of reactor. Man manipulating parts using remote control. Scientists in laboratory producing radio isotopes.

Bush land. Man cutting down small trees with axe. Bulldozer clearing land. Building site of Lucas Heights in 1955. First Chairman of the Commission Mr Jack Stephens at desk. Professor Baxter showing model of Lucas Heights to Minister for National Development Senator WH Spooner. Mr Howard Beale, Minister for Supply, studying plans for establishment. Building site for Lucas Heights. July 1956 steel tank arrives at docks, Cockatoo Island Sydney, lifted by crane, loaded onto truck. Further construction scenes using cranes. Scientists in white coats helping with interior construction. Scientist in control room, CU dials.

Mr Howard Beale, Minister for Supply, studying plans for establishment. Building site for Lucas Heights. July 1956 steel tank arrives at docks, Cockatoo Island Sydney, lifted by crane, loaded onto truck. Further construction scenes using cranes. Scientists in white coats helping with interior construction. Scientist in control room, CU dials.

Film and television cameras on scaffolding. Prime Minister Robert Menzies making speech at opening of Lucas Heights nuclear reactor on 18 April 1958. Menzies walking around. Scientist checking instruments and controls. Chemical engineers and chemists at work. Working in laboratory. Radio active materials handled with gloves through box. Radio isotopes. Scientists in white coats. Scanning hands for contamination. Exterior Lucas Heights. Scientist checking instruments and controls. Chemical engineers and chemists at work. Working in laboratory. Radio active materials handled with gloves through box. Radio isotopes. Scientists in white coats. Scanning hands for contamination. Exterior Lucas Heights.