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© ® o© TECHNICAL REPORTS SERIES No 154 IAEA Research Contracts Fourteenth Annual Report INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, VIENNA, 1974 IAEA RESEARCH CONTRACTS The following States are Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency : AFGHANISTAN HAITI PAKISTAN ALBANIA HOLY SEE PANAMA ALGERIA HUNGARY PARAGUAY ARGENTINA ICELAND PERU AUSTRALIA INDIA PHILIPPINES AUSTRIA INDONESIA POLAND BANGLADESH IRAN PORTUGAL BELGIUM IRAQ ROMANIA BOLIVIA IRELAND SAUDI ARABIA BRAZIL ISRAEL SENEGAL BULGARIA ITALY SIERRA LEONE BURMA IVORY COAST SINGAPORE BYELORUSSIAN SOVIET JAMAICA SOUTH AFRICA SOCIALIST REPUBLIC JAPAN SPAIN CAMEROON JORDAN SRI LANKA CANADA KENYA SUDAN CHILE KHMER REPUBLIC SWEDEN COLOMBIA KOREA, REPUBLIC OF SWITZERLAND COSTA RICA KUWAIT SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC CUBA LEBANON THAILAND CYPRUS LIBERIA TUNISIA CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC TURKEY REPUBLIC LIECHTENSTEIN UGANDA DENMARK LUXEMBOURG UKRAINIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MADAGASCAR REPUBLIC ECUADOR MALAYSIA UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST EGYPT, ARAB REPUBLIC OF MALI REPUBLICS EL SALVADOR MEXICO UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT ETHIOPIA MONACO BRITAIN AND NORTHERN FINLAND MONGOLIA IRELAND FRANCE MOROCCO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GABON NETHERLANDS URUGUAY GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC NEW ZEALAND VENEZUELA GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGER VIET-NAM GHANA NIGERIA YUGOSLAVIA GREECE NORWAY ZAIRE, REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA ZAMBIA The Agency's Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York; it entered into force on 29 July 1957. The Headquarters of the Agency are situated in Vienna. Its principal objective is "to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world". (C) IAEA, 1974 Permission to reproduce or translate the information contained in this publication may be obtained by writing to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kärntner Ring 11, P.O. Box 590, A-1011 Vienna, Austria. Printed by the IAEA in Austria April 1974 TECHNICAL REPORTS SERIES No. 154 IAEA RESEARCH CONTRACTS Fourteenth Annual Report INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA, 1974 IAEA RESEARCH CONTRACTS IAEA, VIENNA, 1974 STl/DOC/lO/154 FOREWORD This volume contains the summaries of all final reports received during 1973 in relation to research supported under contract (which provides for a financial contribution from the Agency) or agreement (under which no financial contribution is provided). Every summary in this book has been reviewed or prepared by that member of the Agency's scientific staff who has beenmost closely connected with the particular branch of research concerned. The scientific data are the responsibility of the contractor, though the Agency is responsible for any additional observations. It is the policy of the Agency strongly to encourage publication in the open scientific literature of results of work done under contract or agree- ment, and any articles so published are listed at the end of each summary. Microfiche copies of the complete final reports may be obtained from INIS Section Division of Scientific and Technical Information International Atomic Energy Agency Kärntner Ring 11 (P.O. Box 590) A-1011 Vienna Austria on payment in advance of $0. 65 per document (or equivalent in national currencies) or in exchange for an IAEA microfiche clearing-house coupon. Governments of Member States of the IAEA may obtain free, on request, up to three microfiche copies of any report from the above address. Requests should mention the relevant report number, which is given at the head of each summary in this book. CONTENTS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY NUCLEAR POWER AND REACTORS Research Contract No. 706 Cross-flow and mixing between semi-open channels in nuclear reactors 3 Research Contract No. 934 High sensitive detection of rare fission gas release of fuel elements of water cooled reactors 5 Research Contract No. 1027 Determination of negative reactivities in a subcritical assembly, by means of neutron statistical fluctuations 7 Research Contract No. 1045 The economic comparison of nuclear reactors of 350 and 500 MW(e) for developing countries 9 Research Contract No. 1079 Determination of impurities in uranium plant products 12 Research Contract No. 1112 Guide on nuclear fuel-cycle cost evaluation 14 Research Contract No. 1184 International comparison of chemical dosimeters for in-pile use 16 Research Contract No.1328 Development of cultures of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans for the microbiological leaching of sulphide and uranium ores (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the bacterial leaching of uranium ores) 19 WASTE MANAGEMENT Research Contract No. 1213 Calculations on and building of mathematical models of processes involved in the deposition of wastes in water 23 PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY Research Contract No.818 Radio-spectroscopic investigation: the ordering of magnetics containing isotopes 57 Fe 2 5 Research Contract No. 844 Nuclear and hyperfine interaction measurements by angular correlation and Mossbauer technique 28 Research Contract No, 895 Chemical behaviour of radionuclides in natural waters, and their interaction with chelating agents 31 Research Contract No, 1141 Development and industrial application of a high sensitivity Mössbauer spectrometer 33 RADIOISOTOPES AND RADIATION APPLICATIONS AGRICULTURE Research Agreement No. 418 The use of isotopes and radiation in studies on etiology, effects and treatment of parasitic diseases in domestic animals (part of a co-ordinated program) 37 Research Agreement No. 507 The use of radioisotopes as reference substances in studies of intestinal absorption and digestibility (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the use of isotopes and radiation in studies on etiology, effects and control of parasitic diseases in domestic animals) 41 Research Agreement No. 520 Physiology of nutrition of Hypoderma-larvae in comparison with facultative and obligate parasitic fly-larvae (part of a co-ordinated program on the control of animal insect pests by the sterile-male technique) 43 Research Contracts and Agreements Nos 523, 608, 614, 622, 623, 639, 654, 655, 680, 716, 728, 861, 956 and 992 Co-ordinated program of research on the use of isotopes and radiation in wheat fertilization studies 45 Research Contract No. 541 Development of artificial feeding and mass-rearing of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans and G. sub-morsitans (part of a co-ordinated program on the control of animal insect pests by the sterile-male technique) 49 Research Contract No. 612 Haemal and environmental factors regulating tsetse fly feeding activity (part of a co-ordinated program on the control of animal insect pests by the sterile-male technique) 52 Research Contract No. 729 Use of isotopes in studies on the nutrition of groundnuts (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the use of isotopes and radiation in studies of physico-chemical relationships of soils and plants) 53 Research Contract No. 758 Mass rearing methods for important lepidopterous pests of South East Asia (part of a co-ordinated program of rice insect control and eradication) 55 Research Agreement No. 969 Fate and significance of labelled pesticide residues in rice (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the fate and significance of foreign substances in food) 57 Research Contract No. 985 Irradiation of Theileria parva, the causative organism of East Coast Fever of cattle, in its tick vector (part of a co-ordinated program on the use of isotopes and radiation in studies of the etiology, effects and control of parasitic diseases in domestic animals) 59 Research Contract No. 1070 Control of the fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea Drury) by gamma sterilization of males (part of a co-ordinated program on the use of the sterile-male technique of control of lepidopterous insects attacking fruit and forest trees) 62 Research Contract No. 1204 Field performance of released normal and radiation sterilized olive fruit flies in a grove in Northern Greece (part of a co- ordinated program on the control or eradication of fruit flies by the sterile-male technique) 65 FOOD TECHNOLOGY Research Contract No. 839 Irradiation preservation of Korean fish and shellfishery products 67 Research Contract No. 929 Electrical (AC) resistance of irradiated fish for quality control and detection of irradiation treatment 69 Research Contract No. 931 Cell count reduction in seasoning, particularly in ground paprika, by radiation treatment (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the shelf-life extension of irradiated fruits and vegetables) 71 Research Agreement No. 974 Irradiation of dehydrated fruits (figs, prunes, raisins, etc. ) at disinfestation doses: chemical and microbiological aspects (part of a co-ordinated program of research on the shelf- life extension of irradiated fruits and vegetables) 74 INDUSTRY Research Contract No. 870 Wood-polymer combinations using gamma radiation 77 Research Contract No. 1020 Application of radioactivation methods to the determination of trace quantities of gold in rocks, water and plants (part of a co-ordinated program on the use of activation analysis in geochemical and geobotanical prospecting for ores and minerals) 79 MEDICINE Research Contract No. 672 Applications of radioimmunoassay techniques in growth hormone studies in undernourished children and adolescents with retarded growth 81 Research Contract No. 732 Double-isotope techniques for the study of the mechanisms regulating aldosterone secretion and biosynthesis in experimental and clinical