Description(ATM:NUC:PAK). ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY CENTRE AT DACCA, EAST PAKISTAN. UN 102,656 DACCA, East Pakistan. April 1967. The Atomic Energy Agency Centre at Dacca, East Pakistan, with assistance provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1965, and subsequently under the UN Development Programme (UNDP), has carried out research in nuclear physics, using its 3-MeV Van de Graaff accelerator. Up to new research has been carried out in the elastic and inelastic scattering of neutrons, total neutron cross-section measurements, (n,a) reactions and (p,Y) resonance reactions. The centre now wishes to study (n,Y) reactions and the measure fission cross-section. An expert is being assigned in 1968 under UNDP to assist in these new studies. The Centre’s request for more sophisticated equipment from the IAEA in order to keep up the pace of Paskistan’s expanding neutron physics programme, has received preliminary approval. Dr. M. S. HAQ, Head of The Agricultural Division of the Dacca Atomic Energy Centre (left) and Dr. MARIPUU, check irradiated first generation rice plants. Experiments in induced mutations through gamma radiation at the Dacca Centre, is aimed at trying to improve rice strains which nature early and produce a high yield. Pease credit: United Nations MB/AB
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