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“Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan,” edited by Dr. Ashley W. Oughterson and
Dr. Shields Warren, has been published in the National Nuclear Energy Series, Manhattan
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Project Technical Section, Division VUI, Volume 8. This publication, based on the investigations of the Joint Committee for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan,
which was sent to Japan in 1945 immediately following the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings, is
the authoritative treatise on the subject.
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Training Program
About 90 scientists from approximately 50 educational institutions worked at Brookhaven
National Laboratory this summer under the Commission’s program for participation by university faculty members in research programs at national laboratories. Fourteen scientists
came from other countries. About 20 graduate students were brought to the Laboratory by
these visiting scientists to work as their research assistants. The experience provided as~
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sists faculty members in their presentation of scientific courses, and in addition may lead to
initiation of university research projects directly or indirectly related to atomic energy
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Summer courses for both graduate and undergraduate students were also provided at
Brookhaven. The 90 students participating were chosen from 400 applicants, of whom 105 were
offered appointments.
There have been about 45 foreign scientists from 20 nations working at Brookhaven for
Radiobiology Training for High School Science Teachers
Summer courses in general radiobiology, emphasizing the utilization of radioisotopes,
were initiated for high school teachers. The plans for this training were developed in coopera-
tion with the National Science Foundation, which reimbursed certain expensesof the partici-
pants. The courses were given at the University of New Mexico, Duke University, and Harvard
University, and were received enthusiastically by the teachers who participated. It is planned
next year to include three additional universities, the University of California at Los Angeles,
the University of Pennsylvania, and possibly the University of Tennessee. If the success of the
plan continues, courses might be offered in the following year at as many as 20 additional
universities.
Participants who completed the course this summer were presented with demonstration
kits, which will be supplemented by other materials and teaching aids to be used in conjunction
with their high school science courses. The universities which gave the courses will undertake during the coming year to determine how effective the training has been in stimulating
the incorporation of atomic energy subject matter in high school science courses.
Cesium Radiation Source
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A cesium 137 radiation source of 2,045 curies was delivered recently to the University of
Michigan for use in medical therapy. It will be used by the university under a contract executed three years ago covering a comparative evaluation of X-ray, cobalt 60, and cesium 137
sources in clinical teletherapy.
This source is only the second cesium 137 source ever produced for medical therapy.
The first is a source of about 1,500 curies in use at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.
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