1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
Six years after the first International Symposium on Food Irradiation which was held in Karlsruhe, FRG, the second similar gathering took place last November in Bombay, India. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency convened the
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
The possibilities of using radiation for food preservation as a way of alleviating the food deficiency problem in a large part of the world has been studied for some 20 years. Since the idea was recognized as a viable one, scientists had to develop it along three levels:
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
Irradiation sterilization (radappertization) can be used successfully to store ham, bacon, pork, pork sausage, beef, corned beef, chicken, codfish cakes, and shrimp for long periods under non-refrigerated conditions. he technical feasibility of using ionizing radiations to
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
Every 'non-nuclear-weapon' State that joins the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must conclude an agreement with IAEA for the application of safeguards on all nuclear material used in all peaceful nuclear activities in order to prevent diversion to nuclear
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Rabi, I.I. (Columbia University, New York (US))
Dr. I.I. Rabi, Professor of Physics, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate, adviser to presidents and an original member of the scientific advisory committees both of the United Nations and the IAEA, delivered the following address at the Salazar Atomic Centre, Mexico, in October
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Research and Laboratories, Isotope Hydrology Section, Vienna (AT)
The Section of Isotope Hydrology of the IAEA Division of Research and Laboratories gains valuable hydrological information from studies of the concentration of environmental tritium in precipitation, surface and groundwater samples from various sites around the world. This photo
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Vercoe, J.E. Hoeller, H.A.
In October 1972, twenty animal scientists from twelve countries, participated in a meeting in Djakarta sponsored by the Joint FAO/IAEA Divsion of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture, to discuss the role that isotopes and other nuclear techniques have in alleviating some
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
These excerpts are from the discussions of a panel of experts on the subject, 'The Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Power and the Siting of Nuclear Power Plants', held on October 2 last year at the Salazar Nuclear Centre, Mexico.
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1973 - Volume 15, Issue 1 | by Author not available
Self-help was the successful theme of the Republic of Zaire in the construction of its new TRIGA Mark II reactor at the Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies (CREN-K) in Kinshasa. Construction of this reactor was begun in February 1970 and was carried out entirely by a team from
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