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Extensive and complimentary news coverage was given to the United States exhibit, which
was attended by morethan 83,000. An operating low-power research and training reactor
proved to be the most popular item in the exhibit. The United States won a prize cup for having
the best exhibit at the exposition.
Topical Conferences
Under the AEC’s program of financial support for international conferences on special
scientific subjects relating to atomic energy, aid was given to the Symposium on Health Physics
in Biology and Medicine held in Puerto Rico under the auspices of the University of Puerto
Rico, May 26-28,
Second International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 1958
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Details of United States preparation for the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses
of Atomic Energy to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, September 1—13, will be found in the
Commission’s Twenty-fourth Semiannual Report to the Congress.
Trend of conference preparations. The worldwide trend of preparations for the 1958
Conference as reported by the United Nations is clearly in the direction of broader, more complete, ‘and more elaborate participation by more countries. The United Nations announced that
on May 2 it had received 2,325 abstracts of papers from all nations, compared with 1,070 for the
1955 conference. Of the 45 countries and four intergovernmental agencies submitting abstracts,
the smaller nations showed the greatest increases, Mexico and Hungary, which submitted no
papers in 1955, submitted 5 and 28 abstracts, respectively. Yugoslavia increased its submission from 7 to 56 and West Germany from 2 to 65. The United States total of 831 abstracts
submitted by April 22 had been increased to 910 by the middle of June. The numberof abstracts
submitted by May 2 by other leading nations, as reported by the United Nations, were:
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United Kingdom
U.S.S.R.
France
Belgium
199
189
162
West Germany
India
Yugoslavia
Sweden
Ttaly
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69
:
65
63
56
51
47
:
Summary of United States preparations. Preparations by the United States have more than
kept pace with the increased efforts of other nations. United States participation in the 1958
conference is expected to be greater than in 1955 in many respects, as indicated in the following
table:
1958
Numberof abstracts received and processed
by AEC review committees
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Number of papers submitted to the United
Nations for oral presentation or publication
in the proceedings
Films prepared by the United States for show-
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ing by the United Nations
UNCLASSIFIED
1955
1,499
1,067
700
391
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