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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Report to the General Assembly: In accordance with a resolution adopted during the fourth regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the fourth report of IAEA to the UN General Assembly consisted of the annual report of the Board of Governors to the General Conference, covering the period July 1, 1959, to June 30, 1960, together with a supplement dealing with developments, including action taken by the General Conference, during the period July 1 to September 30, 1960. The report noted that during the period under review the preparatory activities of the Agency had begun to bear fruit and that in most domains the year had been the first full year of normal operations. One of the main goals of the Agency, the report continued, was to foster the safe use of nuclear power under economically competitive conditions, but in this area there were still innumerable problems to overcome. Since the cost of generating electricity from nuclear power plants, although steadily declining, was still substantially higher than that of producing conventional power except in a few special cases, the earlier nuclear power plans of a number of countries had been revised and construction of plants was not proceeding at the rate foreseen some years ago. With regard to reactor technology, the Board reported that work was being done to improve the performance of reactors and to reduce their costs of operation by detailed technical modifications, although the cost of research on advanced reactor concepts was so high that only a very few major industrial countries had the necessary material resources to conduct such research. While the Board considered it unlikely that nuclear—propelled ships would become economically competitive with conventional ships in the near future, progress had been made in this sphere in the year under review, as witnessed by the commissioning of a nuclearpropelled ice-breaker and the launching of the first nuclear merchant ship.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
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International Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1961 , pp. 267 - 271
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961

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page 267 note 1 The activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an autonomous international organization under the aegis of the UN, are summarized for the sake of convenience under the General Assembly, since, according to the relationship agreement between the Agency and the UN, the Agency is to report regularly to the Assembly. For a previous summary of the Agency's activities, see International Organization, Spring 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 2), p. 307–309CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

page 267 note 2 Document GC(IV) /RES/61, September 30, 1960.

page 267 note 3 International Atomic Energy Agency, Annual Report of the Board of Governors to the General Conference, Vienna, 07 1960Google Scholar, and Supplement to the Annual Report of the Board of Governors to the General Conference for the Year 1939–1960, October 21, 1960. See also the covering note by the Secretary—General, Document A/4531 and Corr.i and Add.i. The report was issued by the Agency as Document GC(IV)/114, and the supplement as Document INFCIRC/23. For approval of the report by the General Assembly, see International Organization, Winter 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 1), p. 165Google Scholar.

page 268 note 4 International Atomic Energy Agency, General Conference, Fourth Regular Session, September 20—October 1 1960, Resolutions and otber Decisions, Vienna, 12 1960 (Document GC(IV)/Resolutions)Google Scholar.

page 269 note 5 International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin, 01 1961 (Vol. 3, No. 1), p. 28Google Scholar.

page 269 note 6 The New York Times, December 8, 1960.

page 270 note 7 UN Press Release IAEA/281, January 25, 1961.

page 271 note 1 Documents A/CONF.21/SR.1 and 2. For a summary of the 1959 conference, see International Organization, Spring 1960 (Vol. 14, NO. 2), p. 309–311Google Scholar .

page 271 note 2 Document A/CONF.21/L.3.

page 271 note 3 UN Press Release TA/898 and SPF/98, October 21, 1960.

page 272 note 1 The figure shown was the total pledged by Denmark for both programs, the distribution to be announced at a later date.

page 272 note 2 The figure shown represents the minimum contribution of Japan to the two programs, the final amount to be determined on the basis of the total pledges as of December 1, 1960.

page 272 note 3 The figure shown was the total pledged by Senegal for both programs, the distribution to be announced at a later date.

page 272 note 4 The figure shown was the total pledged by the United Kingdom for both programs, the distribution to be announced at a later date.

page 272 note 5 A United States contribution of $40 million was pledged to both programs, subject to the condition that it not exceed 40 percent of the total government contributions to the central fund of each program.

page 272 note 6 The figure shown was the total pledged by West Germany for both programs, the distribution to be announced at a later date.