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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