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The Indian Government in its effort to provide its people with better medical facilities has established near Bombay a Demonstration Plant for Irradiation Sterilization of Medical Products as part of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay. With help from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under the UN Development Programme (UNDP) the Government has installed a Cobalt 60 irradiation facility at the centre.

Two technicians at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay handling Cobalt 60 radiation source in hot cells for shipment to the demonstration Plant for Irradiation Sterilization of Medical Products.

A radio-isotopes laboratory is maintained at the Hospital Moncorvo Filho by the Biophysics Institute of the University of Rio de Janeiro.

A patient under the tracer-scanner to detect and locate take-up of radio-isotopes in various parts of the body.

A radio-isotopes laboratory is maintained at the Hospital Moncorvo Filho by the Biophysics Institute of the University of Rio de Janeiro.

A scintillation probe being used on a young boy's thyroid in conjunction with radio-active iodine.

Oil was the cheapest form of energy until relatively recently. The industrial world thrived on it. Many countries became dependent for their food on its by-products - fertilizers and pesticides. Other sources of power - the sun, the wind, the tides, steam in the earth's crust, coal, nuclear fission and fusion - were neglected as too expensive. Some are more costly to the environment to exploit than others. But many are relatively inexhaustible by comparison with oil. A fair price for energy must be fair to buyers and sellers, but also to the earth and to future generations.

Atomic ice-breaker "Arktika" reaching the North Pole. This is the first ship to break the thick ice cover of the Central Polar region and reach the most northern point of the globe.

Aerial view of Calder Hall, Britain's first nuclear power station and the first in the world to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The station was opened by H:M: the Queen on 17 October 1956, when reactor No. 1 of Calder "A" first supplied current to the national grid. The site, on the Cumberland coast, consists of two power stations, Calder "A" and "B". Calder "A" comprises reactors number 1 and 2 and Calder "B" numbers 3 and 4, both stations having a turbine hall between the two reactors and two cooling towers at one end. Reactor no. 4, the last to be built, first supplied electricity to the grid in April 1959, since when Calder Hall has been supplying over one thousand million units of electricity to the national grid each year.

A basket of fuel elements is guided into the charge machine on the reactor's charging floor.

Aerial view of Calder Hall, Britain's first nuclear power station and the first in the world to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The station was opened by H:M: the Queen on 17 October 1956, when reactor No. 1 of Calder "A" first supplied current to the national grid. The site, on the Cumberland coast, consists of two power stations, Calder "A" and "B". Calder "A" comprises reactors number 1 and 2 and Calder "B" numbers 3 and 4, both stations having a turbine hall between the two reactors and two cooling towers at one end. Reactor no. 4, the last to be built, first supplied electricity to the grid in April 1959, since when Calder Hall has been supplying over one thousand million units of electricity to the national grid each year.

The charge floor of one of the reactors showing numbers 1 and 2 charge machines and number 1 discharge machine on the extreme left.

Aerial view of Calder Hall, Britain's first nuclear power station and the first in the world to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The station was opened by H:M: the Queen on 17 October 1956, when reactor No. 1 of Calder "A" first supplied current to the national grid. The site, on the Cumberland coast, consists of two power stations, Calder "A" and "B". Calder "A" comprises reactors number 1 and 2 and Calder "B" numbers 3 and 4, both stations having a turbine hall between the two reactors and two cooling towers at one end. Reactor no. 4, the last to be built, first supplied electricity to the grid in April 1959, since when Calder Hall has been supplying over one thousand million units of electricity to the national grid each year.

A general view of the site with the electrical sub-station at the right of the photograph.

Aerial view of Calder Hall, Britain's first nuclear power station and the first in the world to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The station was opened by H:M: the Queen on 17 October 1956, when reactor No. 1 of Calder "A" first supplied current to the national grid. The site, on the Cumberland coast, consists of two power stations, Calder "A" and "B". Calder "A" comprises reactors number 1 and 2 and Calder "B" numbers 3 and 4, both stations having a turbine hall between the two reactors and two cooling towers at one end. Reactor no. 4, the last to be built, first supplied electricity to the grid in April 1959, since when Calder Hall has been supplying over one thousand million units of electricity to the national grid each year.

A general view of the station.

Aerial view of Calder Hall, Britain's first nuclear power station and the first in the world to produce electricity on a full commercial scale. The station was opened by H:M: the Queen on 17 October 1956, when reactor No. 1 of Calder "A" first supplied current to the national grid. The site, on the Cumberland coast, consists of two power stations, Calder "A" and "B". Calder "A" comprises reactors number 1 and 2 and Calder "B" numbers 3 and 4, both stations having a turbine hall between the two reactors and two cooling towers at one end. Reactor no. 4, the last to be built, first supplied electricity to the grid in April 1959, since when Calder Hall has been supplying over one thousand million units of electricity to the national grid each year.

An aerial view of the station.