from 13 foreign countries.
SECRET
The International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering ak
the Argonne Nationel Laboratory, in cooperation with North Carolina Sta
Sallege and Pennsylvania State University, through February, 1957, has
graduated 162 students -- 116 of whom have been from 34 foreign countrips.
A U. 5S. program sponsored at the University of Puerto Rico ig
pected to begin with the 1957-56 academic year.
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This program will be fpr
Latin-American students and will be conducted in the Spanish language by
the University under contract with the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak TMiidge
Overations Office.
Facilities for training progrems in reactor physics
anc
in the use of radioisotopes in various fields of research will be furnished
and will include 2 research reactor, a subcritical facility and, av a Inter
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cate, possibly a training reactor.
These facilities will serve as a nypleus
Sor a comprehensive educational and research program in pure and applien nuClear sciences eat the University.
A four-fold program to assist the Inter-American Institute cf
Agricultural Sciences is being organized by the Commission:
(2)
Offering
a
treining av the Oan Ridge ~Institute cf Nuclear Studies
anc Brookhaven Nptional
laboratory for
staff members
ecved
bry the Director of the Institute pet
Turrialbe; (b) providing cquinuent for a radioisotenm laboratory: (c) ¢ moplyiy
ing a radiation source (echalt SO) fer plent irradiation in the field,
radicisotopes, if desired, and help in the technique of using these todis;
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and (a) providing irradiation of plants and seeds fcr experiments as raquested.
Under the educational exchange program, the Depertment of State
continues to sponscr and facilitate the exchance of lecturers, specialis cS
and research
scholars in the field of nucleer science.
The Internastidnal
Cooperation Administration, in addition to assisting foreign participarfts in
the International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the rad i0-
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