~ -- . . ayo —— aaa REACTOR DEVELOPMENT - - UNCLASSIFIED= 4 equipment to be purchased are six reactors for teaching and nine critical assemblies, With the June awards, a total of $8.7 millfon had been granted to 95 institutions, In June the AEC awarded assistance to the University of Virginia for operation of its, research reactor. The assistance consists of the loan of fabricated fuel elements and neutron sources without charge, and the walver of burnup and use charges on the contained special nuclear materjal. Other educational institutions receiving similar assistance are North Carolina State College, Pennsylvania State Dniversity, University of Michigan, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Commission approved the loan, without charge, of source, special nuclear, and byproduct materials to ten educational institutions, bringing to 60 the number of educational institutions which had received such-loans at the end of June. Yr, The Summer Institute Program, sponsored by the AEC and the American Society for Englneering Education, has as its purpose the training of faculty members teaching engineering. The program is divided into three levels: basic instruction to faculty members of technical institutes which do not offer advanced degrees, basic instruction to faculty members of engi- neering schools offering higher degrees, and advancedinstruction to highly qualified personnel on specific areas of nuclear engineering. A basic institute for faculty members from technical institutes is to be held at Pennsylyania State University. Acceptances in this group totaled 30. Basic institutes for faculty from engineering schools are to be held at Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, Purdue University, and North Carolina State College. A total of 140 are to attend. Areas of instruction, location, and acceptances for the advanced institutes are as follows: Chemical processing Nuclear metallurgy - Instrumentation and control ‘Reactor physics Hanford Works Research laboratory at Towa State College Argonne National Laboratory University of Michigan 10 10 17 20 Those participating in the summer program represent 91 colleges and universities, 23 technical institutes, and three service academies. This summer’s attendance will bring the total number, who have participated in the 3 years during which the program has been functioning, to 330 faculty members from 120 universities in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and 30 faculty members from 23 technical institutes in 15 states. (End of UNCLASSIFIED section.) DOE ARCHIVES UNCLASSIFIED mate