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plants, and other food products, and ultimate deposition in man. Sources of such radioactive
- debris may be nuclear weapons detonations, aeronautical and space propulsion systems, or
possible nuclear accidents involving release of fission products and fissionable materials along
with induced activity.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Equipment Grants
Requests from 45 colleges and universities amounting to $948,860 for assistance in
purchase of educational equipment were reviewed and evaluated in September. Thirty-seven
requests in the amount of $434,601 were being processed for award.
Summer Institutes in Radiation Biology
Approximately 35 requests were received from colleges proposing the conduct of training
institutes in radiation biology for high school and/or college teachers in the summer of 1960.
These are being studied, and announcements will be made in November.
The manual, “Teaching with Radioisotopes,” prepared by Harvard University under contract with the AEC was distributed in July 1959. It is intended for use by the teachers who
have attended radiation biology institutes, and much of its material was contributed by these
teachers,
Two shipments of radioisotopes will be supplied during this academic year to the teacher
who participated in institutes during the past four summers. These radioisotopes are limited
to quantities which do not require a specific license.
During the first week of September, a seminar was held with directors of radiation biology
institutes sponsored by the AEC to discuss course content, instrumentation, accomplishment
to date, and future plans. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.)
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This program has been supported for thepast four summers under joint sponsorship with
the National Science Foundation. The Foundation supports the teacher participants, and the
AEC supports the universities conducting the institutes.
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During the month of July, representatives of the AEC visited the radiation biology institutes for the purpose of evaluating individual university performance in the teaching of
various courses, and for general evaluation of the program. There was every evidence of the
excellent contribution being made during the summer of 1959 through the conduct of these
17 institutes for high school science teachers, and two institutes for biology teachers from
small colleges.