United States Secretary of Navy John H. Chafee arrives on USS Saratoga in the United States. John H Chafee is greeted by Captain Warren H Oniel, Commanding Officer of USS Saratoga. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral David Richardson is greeted by Captain Warren H Oniel. Officials converse with each other and pose for a photograph. Dignitaries don Mae West or life jackets before boarding a U.S. Navy Kaman UH-2C Seasprite helicopter.
United States Secretary of Navy John H. Chafee on USS Saratoga in the United States. Commanding Officer of USS Saratoga Captain Warren H Oniel, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral David Richardson and another dignitary walk on the ship deck. Vice Admiral David Richardson speaks to sailors. John H Chafee dons a Mae West. He gets into a hi-line chair and is hoisted high off the deck. The Secretary of Navy is being hi-lined to a destroyer alongside USS Saratoga. A welcoming committee welcomes John H. Chafee aboard the destroyer.
Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong in the United States. Louis Armstrong plays a trumpet during a jazz performance. Several views of the trumpeter. Louis Armstrong playing and singing "Hello Dolly" on a stage set, with dancers.
A regional communications center in the United States. A bank of recorder/reproducer signal data machines (RD-304). A soldier loads a tape into a RD-304 machine and starts it. The soldier at a maintenance console. He pushes light flash buttons. Tape reel turning.
A documentary titled 'Project Salt Vault' depicts methods of disposing of waste uranium in the United States. View of a nuclear power plant. Cars parked in front of the plant. Electrical feeders attached to a bay. The conveyors. Uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor. An animation depicts the reprocessing of the leftover uranium fuel to separate it from radioactive waste. The uranium waste is stored in tanks. A man undertakes experiments at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to reduce the volume of the waste. An animation depicts heating process for reducing the waste. A sign board reads 'Project Salt Vault, Oak Ridge National Laboratory'. A salt bed is used to dispose of waste uranium. A man walks in a salt mine.
A documentary depicts disposal of high level nuclear waste in salt mines in the United States for radioactive waste. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). A man works on a machine and conducts a test. He operates the machine. A board reads' Project Salt Vault'. High level solidified waste. A truck carries canned fuel element for an experiment. A salt mine. A ground crew comes and collects data. Interior of the mine. A man conducts the experiment. Fuel assembly array located in different sections of the mine. An electronic heated control array. Canned fuel element for demonstration is unloaded from a special carrier. It is placed vertically over a shaft. Underground crew operates a transporter control. The can is lowered. An animation shows the can being lowered and mounted on a fuel canned transporter. A check for radiation leakage is made after the transporter doors are closed. The crew moves back to the room where the experiment is conducted. A crew man removes the radio active container from a transporter cask. The cask in lowered and a hoist cable is disconnected. The transporter carries the fuel can to the experiment room. The fuel can is kept in a hole. The crew moves and operates a remote control.