HC Deb 06 June 1961 vol 641 cc86-7W
Mr. Mason

asked the Parliamentary Secretary for Science if he will state in full the benefits that have been obtained by Her Majesty's Government and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority since the signing of the United Kingdom-Euratom Technical Collaboration Agreement.

Mr. Denzil Freeth

Co-operation under the Agreement has covered a wide range of subjects, including basic reactor physics, reactor planning and programming, reactor economics and the costing of nuclear power, fast reactors and gas cooled reactors, thermonuclear fusion, nuclear measurements, mass spectrometry, work-shop organisation, health and safety, corrosion, the construction of "hot" laboratories, the industrial applications of radioisotopes, juridical problems arising from nuclear ship propulsion, radiation protection and third party liability. Co-operation has been carried out by exchange of reports, visits of experts, conferences and cymposia, and attachments of staffs to specific projects and establishments. The United Kingdom also collaborates with Euratom and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the translation pool "Transatom", which concentrates specially on translations from such languages as Russian and Japanese.