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NEWS- RCA Countries to Formulate Nu
- Subject: NEWS- RCA Countries to Formulate Nu
- From: Rangoonp@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:39:00
Subject: NEWS- RCA Countries to Formulate Nuclear Instrument Project in
Myanmar
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NOTE: Imagine what could happen if the Burmese military controlled any
nuclear technology ??!??! They would probally set it up in an ethnic
area to poison and pollute the local peoples.
RCA Countries to Formulate Nuclear Instrument Project in Myanmar
Xinhua
27-JAN-99
YANGON (Jan. 27) XINHUA - Representatives of some
member countries of the Regional Cooperative Agreement
(RCA) for Nuclear Science and Technology are meeting
here to formulate a project to promote the capabilities for
repair and maintenance of nuclear instruments.
The five-day meeting, jointly sponsored by the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Department of Atomic
Energy of the Myanmar Ministry of Science and Technology,
began on Monday.
Attending the meeting are representatives of RCA member
countries -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Sri
Lanka and Vietnam.
The project was proposed by the IAEA for cooperation
specifically designed to meet the needs of the RCA member
countries.
At the meeting, Myanmar Deputy Minister for Science and
Technology Thura Aung Ko admitted that his country has
had setbacks in promoting nuclear science although it
started quite early in the 1950s.
Myanmar made fresh efforts for the development and
application by establishing the Ministry of Science and
Technology in 1996, and setting up the Department of
Atomic Energy as a new directorate in 1997, getting more
and more involved in international cooperation.
Despite not achieving so much progress in nuclear science
and technology, Myanmar has been able to introduce
nuclear application in important areas, assisted by the
IAEA,
he pointed out.
He cited nuclear radiation application introduced in the
country for promoting agriculture, for an ongoing program
for
new varieties of crops particularly peas, beans and paddy,
using the method of radiation induced mutations, and for
disease diagnosis in animals to obtain the best feeding
strategies.
At the meeting, representatives of IAEA also recounted
experience of the projects carried out in Latin America.
Myanmar became an RCA member in 1994 and hosted the
19th RCA Working Group Meeting for the first time in March
1997, attended by delegates from 17 RCA member states.