“ BROOKHAVEN SPECTRUM ” 1967 ATOMIC EXPERIMENTS AT BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY XD78255
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This 1967 documentary "Brookhaven Spectrum" was produced for the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island. It looks at the different atomic experiments that were being conducted there. It begins with a general introduction to the laboratory, including the scientists and engineers that are working there. This is followed by footage of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), which was the largest particle accelerator in the world when first commissioned. This is followed by several experiments on the effects of radiation including with different animals, flowers, a forest, and human patients in the medical center of the laboratory.
0:15 scientists walking up stairs in a nuclear reactor, 0:34 scientists loading Uranium pieces onto a holder, 1:21 a camera following the reactor being turned on, 1:42 “Brookhaven Spectrum”, 2:21 models of atoms being looked at by a scientists, 3:00 Brookhaven national Laboratory logo, 3:15 scientists talking in front of a door, 3:38 different research pursuits at Brookhaven including mathematics, data, animal testing, reactors, accelerators, and the knowledge it produces, 4:27 scientists talking in front of a board with math on it, 5:17 close ups of different scientists working at Brookhaven, 5:56 an aerial overview of Brookhaven, 6:17 an electrostatic generator, 6:27 a cosmotron, 6:36 alternating gradient synchrotron (AGS), 6:48 scientists working on the running accelerator, 7:20 an animation of the particle accelerator running, 7:40 animation of the shattering of atoms, 8:11 pictures of the collision, 8:30 scientists looking at the particle pictures, 9:00 photographs being scanned as they come out of the bubble chamber, 9:31 a machine analyzing the particle film, 10:07 a computer doing calculations, 10:19 engineers working on blueprints for a new particle accelerator, 10:48 Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor being loaded by scientists, 11:10 radiation effects being tested on mice, 11:54 high flux beam research reactor from the outside and the inside, 12:37 a digital computer recording the data collected by the research reactor, 13:03 scientists working at the High Intensity Radiation Development Laboratory (HURDLE), 13:36 Cobalt 60 being raised out of water, 13:54 a mud puppy being used in cellular radiobiology experiments, 14:26 scientist taking out flowers to expose them to radiation, 15:30 scientist looking at cells that have been exposed to radiation, 15:40 aerial and ground overview of a forest that has been exposed to radiation, 16:36 scientists working with remote manipulating hands to perform experiments, 17:18 scientists feeding radioactive material into a hot laboratory, 18:08 chemists working on different projects, 18:22 different works of art being screened to see how they were painted, 18:42 different archeological finds, 18:55 man taking a sample scraping from a vase, 19:10 sample placed in graphite reactor, 19:41 nurses at the Brookhaven medical facility 19:51 doctor measuring the blood pressure of a patient, 20:08 a rat having its blood pressure taken, 20:44 Technetium being prepared in the hot laboratory, 21:08 doctor injecting a patient with technetium, 21:37 doctor scanning the patient for the technetium, 22:15 a plastic doll with fake organs being exposed to radiation, 22:46 a calf with leukemia having blood withdrawn and treated with radiation, 23:35 a human leukemia patient having extra corporeal irradiation of the blood undertaken, 24:11 different animations including of spinning circles and light dots bouncing around, 24:52 directed by Paul Cohen, edited by Robert Johnson, 25:13
Research at Brookhaven includes nuclear and high energy physics, energy science and technology, environmental and bioscience, nanoscience, and national security. The 5,300 acre campus contains several large research facilities, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and National Synchrotron Light Source II. Seven Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work conducted at Brookhaven Lab.
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@PeriscopeFilm
20 күн бұрын
Thanks, so glad you "get it". Thanks for being a sub!
@kimberlina68
20 күн бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilmit is good, because it helps us see #truth
@michaelmyrick6973
20 күн бұрын
We should do this with all movies then. Unfortunately this says many lies. Matter is frequency within the medium. Einstein stole his work. Read his travel diary. Horrible person. They lie to the masses for control. You all assume just the politics is screwed up. Your only at the tip of the corporate lies. Your a pay check not a person to them.
@user-pf3cu4lo7u
19 күн бұрын
Could not agree more
@mrhassell
16 күн бұрын
@@user-pf3cu4lo7u I second that motion.
..I went there in the fall of 1965 with the senior physics class of De Paul High School I was sophomore at the time and it was a "gee whiz"tour for me
@mrhassell
16 күн бұрын
You are one very, very lucky human being! That's absolutely fantastic! Thanks for sharing. People need to be inspired, and motivated to 'get into it'.
Wow this film really meant a lot to me personally. My neighbor on Long Island was a nuclear physicist that worked at Brookhaven and taught at Stoney Brook. In either 72 or 73 he gave me a personal tour of the Brookhaven Lab. He led a team that was performing crystal molecular mapping. He designed crystals and used synthetic methods to grow them. I was only 11 but he was very impressed that I had a good knowledge of nuclear theory and an avid interest in geology and mineralogy. That tour is still with me till today. It was quite exciting to get a personalised VIP tour especially when I could ask coherent questions that surprised a couple of his associates. I didn't go into that field although the US Navy tried to convince me to choose nuke tech. I chose photo/ photo intelligence as my speciality.
I worked at BNL 1982-2001. Excellent lab .
@mrhassell
16 күн бұрын
wow! Mind - blown! Not only "going there", but paid for such a privilege? Inspiration of the wildest form.
One important part of current Brookhaven work that came later uses the X-rays that are a by-product of the synchotron to irradiate protein samples so that their three-dimensional structures can be determined. Physicists originally regarded the X-rays as a waste of synchotron energy, but they are used for many important purposes now. All of the protein structures I've done used X-ray data collected from Brookhaven. An amazing scientific resource.
At 15:43 it reminds me very much of the Red Forest near Chernobyl. Our own little spot in the US. I wonder how much of Brookhaven's radiation research in this area was referenced when the disaster was unfolding to gauge the expected effect on the environment.
I went there in the early ‘60’s with my Cub Scout Pack. We listened as things were explained to us in “Laymen’s” terms, but, the highlight of the tour was seeing the reactor under its shielding water pool.
My Dad was working at Brookhaven when this was filmed. He was an electrical engineer, though, not a researcher.
@mrhassell
16 күн бұрын
Very intresting field. He must be an absolute brilliant man to talk with. You are a very fortunate person!
This is an amazing film looking back into early (US) nuclear research, particularly its focus on exploring the atom and discovering the (then) new particles we now know today as part of the Standard Model. It is amazing what they accomplished with tools we would now consider primitive. Thank you for this!
From 1979 to 2012 I spent those years very happily at BNL.
Brilliant archival save , the lighting and film camera work techniques used making this film are exceptional .
Interesting film. 👏👏
Lots of Nixie tubes!
OMG ALEXANDER SCOURBY WOW LOL
That sounds like Alexander Scourby narrating
@rhyoliteaquacade
17 күн бұрын
The song at the end sounds like some music Frank Zappa might have done. Burnt Weeny Sandwich or such.. last 4 minutes.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYVlx6WIodi7gbw.html
@mrhassell
16 күн бұрын
There I was, thinking it was Spock.
Ah. Nothing like a horror movie musical sound track to keep their interest up...
all of the experiments on animals got me in the feels. makes you wonder how many of those would be allowed today.
"Research has proven that research has a high probability of causing cancer in rats."
I live in Brookhaven and I love this
i grew up less than five miles from BNL, breast cancer became an epidemic in the 80s, what they dont tell you here is that the water table in this area is less than three feet in most places and the ground water became contaminated due to this laboratory. Shoreham nuclear power plant was just down the road from here as well.
@donaldvonlintig8445
15 күн бұрын
The water table flows from the N.W to the S.E on L.I. Unless you lived directly downstream S.E of B.N.L you might have something to say, But the amount of breast cancer on L.I has no geographical location linked to B.N.L especially the amount of breast cancer to the West and to the North of B.N.L. and for the record, Shoreham Nuclear power plant was never operational, the biggest waste of taxpayers dollars, Ever ! But if you pay attention to the video, you might notice thru the cloud of Smoke, that everyone is sucking down, one Cigarette, after another, and smoking Pipes too !! Don't you think that might have something to do with the high amount of breast cancer in the 80's ??? Or how about the Grumman Site in Manorville, what did they dump there ?,considering what they have been finding at the Grumman site in Bethpage. This is what you didn't look into, instead of what they didn't tell you about the "water table" Don't blame the Lab, they were there first, and its all for Science and the benefit for Mankind.
@TamponTea
14 күн бұрын
@@donaldvonlintig8445 i live by all 3 was just fishing near the power plant the other day and you can hear it humming still.
@jimurrata6785
9 күн бұрын
@@TamponTea Pumps need to circulate the water in the cooling ponds. Until this country gets its head out of its butt and shuts down the histrionics depleted fuel is going to keep sitting there.
In 2020 I got to visit for some work. Very amazing place and people. I had no idea how much nuclear material had been on site in past. Probably should have worn a dosimeter. I do recall one of the tech's telling me there were hot spots, off limits. I think near the RHIC.
0:58 An atomic scientist using a PA speaker as a microphone.
@ilionreactor1079
21 күн бұрын
A transducer is a transducer. Most speakers can be used as mics. You're either inducing movement of a magnet with current in a coil (speaker) or inducing current in a coil by moving the magnet (mic).
@tomallen3605
21 күн бұрын
That is a 2-way com that is used in loud environments. Speaker doubles as a microphone. We used to turn the volume up to max on one unit then wait for someone to walk by, then make an announcement. Guy would jump a foot off the floor.
Why do i expect it tonsuddenly cut to Dr Mangattans origin story from from "Watchmen"...
Im filipino..i really hope that america will comeback big time...almost all inventions are made in your country and now china gets the profits..
@clown134
17 күн бұрын
oh like what? not space, not internet, not machinery velcrow?
Like the other commenters thankyou for posting these videos I don’t have television and don’t want to see the garbage on tv nowAdays I enjoy these older films to so much so it’s nice to have films like this to watch
So many intelligent people, and they’re smoking.
@melanietheisen5681
15 күн бұрын
Yes, I noted that too. I currently work at BNL, no smoking inside or even just outside doorways now. But I know a lot still smoke. Can't hide the smell on their clothes.
@Dessoxyn
6 күн бұрын
Whatever they're smoking allows middle aged guys to read a blackboard full of equations from 15 meters away.
3:34 That PPE tho
I remember when AMF Atomics would test their RTG's on a barge full of sand in Long Island Sound. No containment, no warnings to boaters, no heavy security about the plutonium, just suck it and see.. 🤯
Real Brookheaven
10:34 that statement is absolutely wrong, but this was filmed before asymptotic freedom was discovered.
WTF at 1:35 the numbers "666" briefly lifjtiuup as it starts to go critical?? That's either outstanding work by the people making the film or a deeply unsettling coincidence. Now that I think about it, it was most likely an editor who spotted that and put it in.
Sounds like William Daniels on the narration.
Next reaction - October ends Damaged 😍
People working with HFBR at ca. 12:36 wear suits and bow ties. That's some style!
Make one for me!!!
Pre-relativistic heavy ion collider(RHIC! Largest until LHC)
The lady irradiating rads with a calm smirk is wired different.
17:09 my mom had a vacuum like that
very star trek
ive heard those little white experimental mice cost thousands of dollars because theyre genetically identical
00:58 , did he just speak into a loudspeaker like it was a microphone?
Seems like banging sounds is not something you want with a nuclear reactor
@DrDeuteron
16 күн бұрын
Yeah that bugged me, later it’s revealed its just the bubble chamber doing its thing. They were replaced shortly after this was filmed with things like my pfp.
"ultra high-speed computers" 😂 so what? A blazing speed of 0.05 MHz? 😂😂
@MichiganPeatMoss
21 күн бұрын
measured in MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) - yeah, only a handful at best.
@mirroredvoid8394
16 күн бұрын
We have consumer computers with 512gb of ram, terabytes of storage and a CPU that can clock 5-6ghz on multiple cores, yet 99.999% percent of us do nothing important with it.
That was rather serious butter... OK
@3:56 hell nawww
To bad the lab has leaked tritium into ground water table 😔
those poor rats
yeah, what became of irradiating food to postpone spoilage? lol
@PeriscopeFilm
20 күн бұрын
Good question. According to what I've heard, the public hated the term "irradiation" and its perceived connection to nuclear radiation. So even though it had tremendous benefits it was not widely adopted.
@lmiddleman
20 күн бұрын
@@PeriscopeFilm The other problem is that since radiation kills bacteria and fungus, the food supply would easily become adulterated with all kinds of gross stuff, e.g. manure, and this would be difficult and expensive to detect.
@David-sp7gc
20 күн бұрын
It is used today with a cobalt 60 source for gamma sterilization. I think the brand is called top shelf. It’s good for tougher foods like proteins and vegetables. It turns strawberries and similar fruits to mush.
@michaelcaprio5269
20 күн бұрын
I suppose people just started using electromagnetic microwave radiation to heat their food
@josephkanowitz6875
20 күн бұрын
ב''ה, used in some countries, including parts of Asia. Scale can be an issue, controlling the sheer quantity of material required can be an issue, and industrial accidents with that aren't pretty. In USA it's mostly just consumer fears (and maybe we'd have an even poorer gut biome had this caught on) but operating the facilities safely may be a bit too fiddly for Americans anyway.
onion: research scientist uneasy after leaving facility to visit relations over holiday weekend. " uhhhm. i may have left the tandem vandem bandergraph on. it likely won't go critical but hmmm it does use a lot of power. if only i could remember if i had flipeed the switch. hmmmm. "
@MichiganPeatMoss
21 күн бұрын
...and what about that lady handling those irradiated mice with her bare hands, eh?
@rhyoliteaquacade
17 күн бұрын
Call the maintenance guy long distance and walk him through which red toggle switch to flip. NOOOOO not that one!!
Smoking was NOT a problem, until those very same said it is a problem. That’s how progress works.
They even managed to create a tiny black hole, by accelerating two mice, each traveling at just under the speed of light, and made to crash into each other. They were able to create a substance that confers near immortality on human beings, but only human beings who are very rich. This is how the physical world works, but it's kept from the public for fear of a world wide revolution.
@Dessoxyn
6 күн бұрын
Well done. [cutting edge physics] "and we also hire some guys to like just put mice in particular accelerators to find out gruesomely f*cked they get'[advanced physics] "
Ah the good old days, smokin' in the lecture hall, none of this cancer-cancel culture you've got today.
@ilionreactor1079
21 күн бұрын
Of all the stuff they were working with, nicotine was probably the most benign.
@David-sp7gc
20 күн бұрын
We used to put lead in paint and gasoline. Glad we canceled that stuff.
@charliepatterson9321
19 күн бұрын
@@David-sp7gc ethanol destroys fuel lines and rubber gaskets in carbs. I would rather run leaded gas in my vehicles
@mikecosentino1478
15 күн бұрын
@charliepatterson9321 the presence of lead does not imply the absence of ethanol and vice versa. Lead is for the softer valve seats in heads designed before the EFI era. It's telling that you would advocate for less regulation, when you yourself clearly suffer from lead poisoning.
@mikecosentino1478
15 күн бұрын
Cancel culture doesn't exist, you're just old and stubborn, and probably suffering from a traumatic brain injury from all the carcinogens you defend.
Its so insane how many types of anomals they abused. They did this in the name of 'helping' hunanity. In #truth , they were doing this to provide weapons, instead of helping humans and animals. #BrookHavenEvil #BrookhavenSatanic
@11:43…I can tell you why we age…it’s not a mystery…God-Jesus Christ tells us in the Bible that sin entered the world through Adam & Eve because they disobeyed God. Thus we have this; - Hebrews 9:27 “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,” - Genesis 3:19 “By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Most house dust is just dead skin cells, showing that we are in fact only dust in our temporary tents. We all have eternal souls/spirits and will spend all of eternity either with God-Jesus Christ in paradise/heaven or separated from Him for all eternity in Hell, Gehenna. - John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”
nucIear is Not the answer... Jus ask someone who has cancer
@MitzvosGolem1
21 күн бұрын
I do..and not true .
@Jaggerbush
21 күн бұрын
Wow. What an uninformed opinion.
@LFTRnow
21 күн бұрын
Nuclear energy and related research output is how you detect and cure cancer (along with a host of other therapies). Also, there is far less radiation coming from a nuclear plant than basically any other energy generation plant today. Coal dust is full of radioactivity and it goes up the chimney. Mining for rare earths to make motors, generators, etc for wind turbines and solar concentrates the natural radioactive materials found with those materials. Radiation is everywhere and the body long ago learned to deal with low levels of it.
@MitzvosGolem1
21 күн бұрын
@@Jaggerbush Many many causes for various cancers. Radiation treatment saved my life from such.
@MichiganPeatMoss
21 күн бұрын
yeah, what became of irradiating food to postpone spoilage? lol