Beyond uranium

Beyond uranium is a short film from 1956 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Outlines the discovery of the first six elements beyond uranium. Describes the discovery of neptunium and demonstrates the significant experiment showing that plutonium undergoes fission with slow neu...

Beyond uranium
Release date	1956

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Summary

Outlines the discovery of the first six elements beyond uranium. Describes the discovery of neptunium and demonstrates the significant experiment showing that plutonium undergoes fission with slow neutrons. Discusses the modification of the Periodic Table resulting from the discovery of these new elements. Indicates the importance of some of the new elements by demonstrating a chain reaction and explaining the operation of an atomic power plant.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:33:00);16mm

IUL Genres

IUL Subject

Chemistry.

Full Title (usually this is the same as above)

Beyond uranium