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materials. Responsibility for the enforcement of this law was assigned to the Ministry of
Public Health.
Canada. On May 24 the NRU reactor building at Chalk River became severely contam{nated with radioactive materials as the result of an accident which occurred during the removal
of a defective fuel element. The contamination was confined largely to the NRU building, and
cleanup operations wereinitiated immediately. All planned United States experiments in the
NRU facilities were to be delayed for an indefinite period,
Early in April Eldorado Mining and Refining, Limited, achieved its first production of
uranium metal, about two and one-half years after Canada announced her intention to produce
metal, Production was scheduled to be at a rate of about 300 tons of uranium per year, approxlmately twice fhe requirements for the Chalk River reactors. Canada hoped to sell the rest
abroad and had made commitments to Switzerland for about 12 tons a year.
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The Belgian parliament approved a radiation protection law providing govern-
ment control over the production, utilization, transportation, and Importation of radioactive
Paralleling the AEC’s announcementthat it would permit private sales of uranium ores and
concentrates, the Canadian Government announced on May that it would permit private Canadian producers to make their own sales arrangements. Individual sales of up to 250
pounds will be authorized, with total sales to any one country not to exceed 2,500 pounds,
Sales of larger quantities will be made only to countries with which Canada has agreements
for cooperation. Canada will attempt to market uranium in as finished a form as possible and
will encourage foreign sales of concentrates, uranium metal, and fuel elements. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.)
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border, inaugsurating the construction of a new uranium metal extraction plant. The production
from this pleat, 500 tons of uranium per year, is intended primarily for the power and plutonium
production reactors at Marcoule. Completion of the plant is scheduled for early 1959.
Germany. The Brown Boveri-Krupp group announced that construction was scheduled to
begin at the end of 1958 on a 15,000-electrical-kilowatt advanced type gas-cooled experimental
power reactor. The project is being sponsored by a nine-city utility group in northwest
Germany.
Israel. The new Institute of Nuclear Science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth was
dedicated on May 20. It is expected that there will be close cooperation between the institute
and the staff of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in the use of the latter’s research reactor, to be built by AMF Atomics at nearby Nebi-Rubin.
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Fatification of the United Kingdom—Italy power bilateral agreement was completed
in May. The British Nuclear Power Plant Company and AGIP Nucleare, a publicly owned
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