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Statement Toy the Minister for National Development, Senator the Hon. Sir William 'Spooner, K.C.M.G. , M.M.

The Minister for National Development, Sir William Spooner,

announced today that the Australian Atomic Energy Ccmmjssion

will present an exhibition "based on the peaceful uses of

atomic energy in Brisbane from June 8 to 20; Cairns, July 31

to August 6; Townsville, August 13 to 18j and Toowoomba,

September 3 to 9Â»

The exhibition will include many sections explaining the

A.A.E.C.’s nuclear research programme, Australia's nuclear

reactor HIFAR, nuclear power, the production and uses of

radioisotopes, and prospecting and mining of uranium,,

Many instruments and pieces of equipment will be on

display. One of the highlights of the exhibition will be

an accurate, cutaway scale model of HIPAR, six feet high.

Representatives of the A.A.E.C. will be in attendance

throughout the exhibition. The Commission hopes that

secondary schools will take advantage of this opportunity to

send groups of science students to the display in order to

obtain some idea of what is being done in the nuclear field

in Australia and overseasÂ» '

CANBERRA

May 12, 1964 - P.M

