1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Radiation processing is now a useful production tool in industry. Every year raw material worth several hundred million dollars is irradiated and converted to newer and better products. This review article is based on a paper presented at Nuclex '69 (Basle, Switzerland, October)
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available A comprehensive review of applications of large radiation sources and accelerators in industrial processing was made at a symposium held in Munich during August. Reports presented dealt with industrial work already proved to be practical, projects in an advanced stage of
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Progress has been made in the difficult task of controlling the harmful effects of the tsetse fly on human beings and cattle. One of the methods towards which research is being devoted in a number of countries is aimed at eventual use of the sterile male technique. At the
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Scientists from fourteen countries made a five-week tour of Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR in the late summer to study how those countries, with nuclear programmes generally in advance of their own, have tackled a problem which is common to all: how to dispose safely of
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Before nuclear power can play its full role in contributing to the development of less advanced countries, full understanding of the capital investment, fuel costs and other economic factors as well as of the place it must take in existing power programmes is essential. Some
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Research workers in many countries are to collaborate in using isotopic tracer and radioactivation techniques to study what happens to pesticides and other chemicals used in agriculture on their way from the field to the dinner-table. They want to find out how residues of the
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available The Holy See has participated in every General Conference of the IAEA and has made a special contribution in Vienna to international co-operation and the development of the peaceful atom. On August 20, 1957 the Holy See became a full member of the Agency. (author)
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available An intensive six-week training course in the use of isotopes and radiation in animal sciences and veterinary medicine is to be held in Yugoslavia from 4 May to 12 June next year. The course is being organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization/ Agency Joint Division of
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1969 - Volume 11, Issue 6 | by Author not available Ways in which the protein content of plant crops may be raised by the use of nuclear radiation are to be discussed at a symposium in Vienna in June next year, organized by the joint Food and Agriculture Organization/Agency Division of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture. Plant
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