RMI Nuclear Justice Documents

admiral Paul F. Foster The meeting was reconvened at 3:30 p.m. with the introduction of Admiral Paul F. Foster and some of his staff to present a review of the recent developments in the Atoms for Peace program. ADMIRAL FOSTER described the recent expansion in the Office of International Affairs ATOMS FOR which has been made into a Division. There are now PEACE thirty-two agreements of cooperation with other friendly countries in the field of atomic research and seven agreements in the field of nuclear power. In addition, there are eight research agreements and four power agreements under discussion or negotiation. The President made a recent offer (Penn. State U. Speech - June, 1955) to contribute one half of the cost of research reactors (up to $350,000) under this program and so far, the United States has made commitments with four countries; Brazil, Spain, The Netherlands, and Denmark. ADMIRAL FOSTER also described several recent missions of the DIA to foreign countries and some of its future plans. Dr. Milton Eisenhower recently announced a program of assistance to the University of Puerto Rico. A grant of $350,000 is to be made to provide a very small training research reactor together with some laboratory equipment for the School of Medicine, the Agricultural Medical Station, and the School of Science. It is hoped that Con- gress will authorize an expansion of this program to provide several million dollars to establish a regional research and training center at Puerto Ricé where it will be readily available to Central and South American Countries. A 20,000 kilowatt nuclear power plant is also planned for the university area subject to Congressional approval . Plans are also being made for accelerating and facilitating the distribution of radioisotopes to foreign countries and a symposium is planned for Central and South American scientific leaders to be held at BNL next Spring. John P. Trevithick Admiral Foster introduced MR. JOHN P. TREVITHICK who discussed the bilateral agreement program. A recent change in scope relates to & provision by which research agreements may involve the transfer by the AEC of limited amounts of spec- BILATERAL AGREEMENT PROGRAM ial nuclear material material, highly enriched U-233, U-235, and Plutonium. During the last year nuclear power agreements have been made with Australia, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and to a certain extent France. The French agreement is a compromige between a research and @ power agreements and limits the -68-