1975 - Volume 18, Issue 1 | by Meckoni, V. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (AT))
A number of countries now have plans to proceed with their nuclear power generation programmes at an accelerated pace. These countries will also have to decide at an early stage of their programmes what should be done with the spent fuel from their power reactors. Should they
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Servant, Jacques Iansiti, Enzo (comps.)
The safety of nuclear power plants in any country rests on many requirements. One is an adequate supply of trained personnel for the work involved and to staff a regulatory agency. Another is the ability to conduct a careful and detailed safety evaluation of a nuclear power
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Swindell, G.E.
In the course of transport by road, rail, sea and air, consignments of radioactive material are in close proximity to ordinary members of the public and in most cases they are loaded and unloaded by transport workers who have no special training or experience in the handling of
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Wojcik, T.
In his statement to the Eighteenth Regular Session of the General Conference the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed the organization in 1976 or 1977 of a major international conference on nuclear power and associated fuel cycle problems. This
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Author not available
The great importance of nuclear power to solve energy problems of the future was shortly underlined by twenty-eight eminent US scientists, including 10 Nobel prize winners, who published on 16 January 1975 a statement on energy policy.
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Silverman, J. (Laboratory for Radiation and Polymer Science, University of Maryland (US))
The development of nuclear power has been responsible for many by-products, among them radioactive fission products. In the late 1940's and early 1950's considerable efforts were made to develop industrial processes that could make use of the fission products in large
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Naudet, R. (Department of Reactor Physics and Applied Mathematics, C.E.N., Saclay (FR))
During 1972, research workers of the French Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique made an astonishing discovery: fission chain reactions had been triggered spontaneously in the very remote past within a uranium deposit in Gabon and parts of the deposit had behaved like a modern
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Goswami, U.
The first steps taken in the direction of the IAEA's present technical assistance programme were the so-called PAMs (Preliminary Assistance Missions) - teams of 5-8 Agency staff members and scientists, who visited countries interested in developing their atomic energy programme,
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Lee, Byoung Whie (Atomic Energy Bureau, Ministry of Science and Technology (KR))
This article is taken from the address given by Dr. Lee during the Scientific Afternoon at the 18th IAEA General Conference. In his introduction he referred to his country's successful reconstruction programme after the Korean War (1950-53) and the present stage of
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1975 - Volume 17, Issue 1 | by Author not available
This report carries, in a listed form, International Conferences, Symposia and Seminars the IAEA plans to hold during 1976. Locations and dates of the meetings will be announced in a later edition of the Bulletin after finalization of the programme
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