ee UNCLASSIFIED INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1958 Short films to be shown bythe United States United States exhibit space (aquare feet) United States ataif* af o ey 207 180 16 128 118 649 0 7,000 ° 210 §1 14 100 43 418 More significantly, United States participation will be of higher quality than was possible in 1955: a DORAAt DEB AES ye pit , Conference representatives and advisors Exhibit staff Information staff Secretariat Local hires Total United States staff -2t 40,000 1955 Technical exhibits. The emphasis of United States technical exhibits has been placed on authentic laboratory equipment, instruments, components, and reactors in actual operation. Highlights of the United States exhibit are expected to be the Argonaut research and training reactor, which will be constructed by personnel from Argonne National Laboratory during the first week of the conference; the TRIGA reactor, manu- factured by General Atomics, Inc., which will produce radioisotopes for the isotope laboratory to be operated in the exhibits building; and the special area containing nine operating laboratory devices representing the major approaches of the United States in research on controlled thermonuclear reactions, Technical films. The United States will present a comprehensive set of technical films of high quality, which are designed especially for the high technical competence of the conference delegates, A special sound system which permits simultaneous narration in four languages was developed for the United States exhibit and has been adopted by the United Nations for the presentation of films from many nations. Technical papers. A larger and more comprehensive organization of review committees representing outstanding United States scientists in all fields was established to assure the highest possible quality in technical papers to be presented by the United States. Commercial exhibit. AEC is offering direct assistance to United States industry in preparations for the commercial exhibition in downtown Geneva. The central exhibit in the United States area will be sponsored by AEC and will dramatize the close cooperation between Government and industry in the United States in the developmentof the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Technical information. In the technical information area, stress will be laid on the wide variety and high quality of information and assistance available from the AEC and private industry in the United States. Unitec Nations advisory committee. United Nations plans for the Conference were reviewed in Geneva on May 7 and 8 by the Secretary-General’s advisory committee, on which Dr. I. I. Rebi is the official United States representative. The committee reviewed the agenda submitted by Dr. Sigvard Eklund of Sweden, the Conference Secretary-General, and increased the number of technical sessions to about 70, to be presented in five parallel series of sessions "1958 personnel figures are estimated. DOE ARCHIVES UNCLASSIFIED