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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency Safety and Reliability Directorate, Wigshaw Lane Culcheth, Warrington WA3 4NE Authors A.G. Cannon and R.C.E. Lewis... 

NR = not reported R D = Research and Development SD = standard deviation U.K. AEA = United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency... 

T. C. LONGWORTH, The GEM4 Code, AHSB(S)-R-146, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency (1968). 

An opportunity in this area finally emerged in 1961. Ethicon Inc., of Rahway, New Jersey - a U.S. subsidiary of Johnson Johnson - invited CPD to bid on the design and supply of a cobalt-60 irradiator that would sterilize sutures, needles, and other disposable medical items. There was keen competition for the job between CPD and a British firm, H.S. Marsh Ltd., which had an arrangement with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency whereby the latter provided it with technical support and sales staff for irradiators. CPD offered to build the facility at a very low price in order to gain entry to the field. Since the Ethicon irradiator would require a cobalt-60 source of 750,000 curies, this was an obvious sales tactic for a cobalt-60 producer like CPD. Ethicon was happy with the promised performance of the machine but, since this was CPD s first such installation, was not convinced that it could do the... 

To the best of knowledge, the first experimental seismic array with more than four elements and openly available data was established in February 1961 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA) on the Sahsbury Plain (UK), followed in December 1961 by the Pole Mountain array (PMA, Wyoming, USA), in June 1962 by the Eskdalemuir array (EKA, Scotland, UK), and in December 1963 by the Yellowknife array (YKA, Canada). This array type... 

Table 4. Concentrations of some metals in animal blood determined by spark source mass spectrometry. Comparison of the concentration ranges of some elements obtain by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with values from mammalian animal blood as reported by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission (UKAEC) ...

Bryan, G. W., Preston, A. and Templeton, W. L. (1966). Accumulation of radionuclides by aquatic organisms of economic importance in the United Kingdom, page 623 in Disposal of Radioactive Wastes into Seas, Oceans and Surface Waters, IAEA Publication No. STI/PUB/125 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna). 

Bath, A. H., Edmunds, W. M., Andrews, J. N., Palaeoclimatic trends deduced from the hydrochemistry of a Triassic sandstone aquifer, United Kingdom, In Isotope Hydrology 1978, Internat. Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Vol. 2, p. 545-568, 1979. 

Ra, Sb, and Th (Joshi 1991). Radiocesium-137 in water from the Hudson River esmary. New York, decreased tenfold between 1964 and 1970, but the Cs content in fish and in sediments remained relatively constant (Wrenn et al. 1971). The effluent from the United Kingdom s Atomic Energy Agency SeUafield facility on the Cumberland Coast of the Irish Sea contained °Sr and Cs, which are soluble in seawater and tend to remain in solution, and Ru, and Zr/ Nb, which are relatively insoluble in seawater and coprecipitate or adsorb on free inorganic and organic surfaces (Pentreath etal. 1971). 

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