Pursuant to Article I of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

In February 2010, the New York Academy of Sciences published the most complete and up-to-date collection of evidence, from independent, scientific sources all over the world, on the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl accident. For 24 years, through a high-level, internationally coordinated cover-up of the world's most serious industrial accident, the nuclear lobby has depriv...

In 1999 dr Petr Vlcek (Fig. 2) became the head of the Clinic and under his leadership the Clinic continues its diagnostic, therapeutic, scientific and pedagogic work. Since 2001 the Clinic has housed the Centre for thyroid oncology and endocrine orbitopathy of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, which covers the whole Czech Republic. All the equipment and procedures fulfill the con...

A simple set of evolution equations is derived for the resistive wall mode in a large aspect-ratio, rotating, viscous, tokamak plasma. The equations take into account the nonlinear deceleration of the plasma rotation generated by mode interaction with both the resistive wall and a static error field. Furthermore, the equations are largely able to explain resistive wall mode data recently obtain...

Molybdenum-99 is one of the most important radionuclides for medical diagnostics. In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency organized a round-robin exercise where the participants measured and calculated specific saturation activities achievable for the 98Mo(n,γ)99Mo reaction. This reaction is of interest as a means to locally, and on a small scale, produce 99Mo from natural molybdenum. T...

Experts from 15 countries met at a symposium in Bangkok from 12 16 December 1960 to exchange information and ideas on the use of radioisotopes in the study of endemic and tropical diseases. Discussions at the meeting, which was sponsored jointly by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization, showed that radioisotopes had enabled medical scientists to gain a better ...

Delineation of Pb contamination pathways in two Pectinidae: the variegated scallop 1 Chlamys varia and the king scallop Pecten maximus 2 3 Marc Metian, Michel Warnau, François Oberhänsli, Paco Bustamante 4 5 6 1 International Atomic Energy Agency – Marine Environment Laboratories, 4 Quai Antoine 7 Ier, MC-98000 Principality of Monaco 8 2 Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 6250 CNR...