UNCLASSIFIED _ “AaSERE with actual materials at hand how an AEC technical brary should be organized and administered to provide maximum service. The workshop and conference, held in response to requests for assistance from many countries to which libraries had been given, were well received and appeared to have been highly useful. Workshops may be held in other areas of the world ff the need arises. During the quarter, an unclassified technical brary was approved for presentation to Iran, bringing to 54 the total number of countries for which libraries have been authorized. Training Courses Graduation of 56 foreign and 11 United States participants in the sixth session of the International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering brought the total number who have completed this course to 272 foreign and 87 United States students. A total of 268 foreign participants from 49 countries had completed the 4-week radioisotope training course at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies through June. Increasing numbers of applications for this course resulted in the establishment in Mayof facilities to accommodate 30 additional foreign students per year. Plans were made and information distributed through State Department channels for a new 6-week course in fallout monitoring techniques, scheduled to start in October 1958 at the Health and Safety Lzboratory of the New York Operations Office. INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS United Natiozs Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation The fifth session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, held in New York June 9-13, unanimously approved adoption of a report to the General Assembly which had been requested by the 1955 resolution which established the com- mittee. The report discusses the biological effects of radiation arising from natural background, medical radiography, industrial use of radioisotopes, and fallout from nuclear explosions. The committee concluded that “all steps designed to minimize irradiation of human populations will act to the benefit of human health” but that “considerations involving effective control of all these sources of radiation involve national and international decisions which He outside the scope of its work.” The committee voted down a Soviet proposal which would have put the comrittee on record as favoring immediate cessation of nuclear weapons testing. The 0 boy . nee oa “31-3 .~ a =. oy : Soviet proposal and an Indian proposal relating to testing will appear as footnotes in the report. It was expected that the report of the committee would be released to the public in August. The Sec>etary General of the United Nations informed the committee that he would recom- mend to the rext General Assembly the indefinite continuance of the committee under suitably broadened te=>ms of reference. The United States representative on the committee, Dr. Shields Warren, advised the Secretary General that while a broad charter was desirable, the future work of the committee should be deliberative rather than operational. Fifth Internziional Electronic and Nuclear Exposition and Congress, 1958 DOE ARCHIVES United S-ates participation in the Fifth International Electronic and Nuclear Exposition and Congress, held in Rome June 16—July 1, consisted of a nuclear energy exhibit and a delegation - of ten AEC and AEC contractor personnel who presented papers at the Congress. partment of Erivts 7 ¢ eric -t"e mistc =~ amr oeies TE 8 UNCLASSIZIED