Dr. Charles W. Shilling
DR. SHILLING stated that a $5 million item for research equipment
and support has been provided in the budget which should aid
materially in assisting cooperative countries in
establishing their own research training programs.
FOREIGN
Such funds could be used for small accelerators,
EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAM
mass spectrometers, radioactive laboratories, gamma
sources, subcritical assemblies, low-cost computing
devices, and so forth.
An illustration of the type of activity planned by
the DBM for 1958 is the expenditure of $310,000 to
assist five countries in the establishment of isotope training facilities and a half-million dollars for the establishment of facilities
for training personnel for the five foreign countries in the
principals of radiological safety.
. [Two additional items of interest were the training of foreign
nationals ($2 million) and a scientific and technical conferences
($200,000).
Another budget item of interest is the provision of $350,000 for a
contract with the engineering group in Puerto Rico for a reactor
with a view of setting up sort of a Puerto Rican BNL for $3.9 million
including laboratory buildings for agricultural, medical, biological,
and physical sciences.
The extended use of Cobalt-60
teletherapy
as well as other radioisotopes would be of great help to many South
American countries because of difficulties in maintaining x-ray
equipment in good operation.
Dr. Paul B. Pearson
On extremely short notice Dr. Pearson visited Costa Rica with
Dr. Sterling Hendricks, Department of Agriculture; Dr. Harold H.
Smith, Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Mr. Allen
Newton, Division of International Affairs. He gave
a detailed account of his visit and observations and
TRIPS TO COSTA
again pointed out the importance of its location in
RICA, ITALY,
Costa Rica. One reason for selecting Costa Rica is
AND SPAIN
that it already has an established and functioning
Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences.
DR. DUNHAM remarked that Dr. Pearson's complete re-
port of the trip is now considered as a model for
such a visit by the Division of International Affairs.
DR. PEARSON then reported briefly on his visit to Italy and Spain.
DR. PEARSON expressed concurrence in the recommendation that an
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