Radiographic film package

In a flat, air-tight, evacuated radiographic film package for non-destructive testing which comprises:

• a radiographic film sheet, a foil sheet comprising a layer of lead in contact with at least one side of the film sheet, and a light-opaque laminated wrapper extending over both sides of said film sheet and foil sheet with said film and foil sheets sandwiched therebetween, said laminated wrapper comprising an inner layer of a heat-sealable peel-strippable thermoplastic, and an outer protective layer of a generally transparent polymer, with the two sides of said wrapper being air-tightly sealed around the open edges thereof by heat-sealing together the mutually facing inner thermoplastic layers in the margins of said wrapper sides proximate said edges while the interior of said wrapper is under vacuum, the improvement wherein said laminated wrapper includes an intermediate layer of aluminum vacuum deposited upon the inner face of said outer protective layer.