Materials For Safety: Fireproof Cable
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: New materials are developed for strength, for lightness, for cheapness or to improve industrial processes. But some materials, as we discover this week, are developed purely to increase safety. In a nuclear power station a fire could be a major hazard. Numerous safety mechanisms and alarms depend on electrical cables which, in the last resort, must be able to withstand the flames themselves. A new completely flexible cable is sheathed with a silicone rubber. If fire broke out, this rubber would burn to form silica - a good electrical insulator which can withstand furnace-like temperatures.
- Keywords
- Fires; Science and technology; Safety devices; Nuclear energy; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/239
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Ian Lake
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Materials For Safety: Fireproof Cable', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 239, 1979. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325989 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)