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Subject: NEWS- RCA Countries to Formulate Nuclear Instrument Project in

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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.