Automatic controls for treatment of wastes at DuPonts Memphis TN plant insure that effluent is made harmless before it is discharged into nearby stream. Waste treatment area includes two large eight hour retention basins and a smaller one hour...
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Dust filtration bags made of DuPont Orlon acrylic fiber being installed at the Ville Patte, Louisiana plant of the Cabot Carbon Company to recover costly carbon black from smokestack wastes.
Insects caught along the Guadalupe River are studied in temporary laboratory by a zoologist from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. He uses a 'teaser' to mount a large dragonfly. The Guadalupe study represents one of many efforts by...
Building in the background (left) is a Separations Facility at the Savannah River Plant. Chemical processing of uranium slugs takes place in this facility after the uranium has been brought from the plant reactors. In the foreground are huge...
This photo was taken just prior to completion of the installation of four steel, concrete encased tanks into which radioactive wastes have been deposited. Backfill now covers the completed tanks.
One of two eight hour retention ponds at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant where trade waste effluent from cyanide operation is treated. From these ponds the effluent goes to a one hour retention basin to insure completion of cyanide destruction and then...
Waste from manufacturing operations at DuPonts Memphis, TN plant receives special treatment before it is finally discharged into nearby stream, Building in background houses automatic controls. Pipes carry chlorine, caustic and steam, which are...
Text from back of photo: "Three Soviet fliers and a Soviet plane designer, are shown in Moscow, before taking off on a projected 7,000-mile non-stop flight across the wastes of Siberia. The plane was a huge Soviet-built monoplane, with fuel tanks...
