Some 100 U. S. industrial and commercial firms, along with 50 academic, professional and private educational and research organizations, were represented in exhibits at the International "atoms-forpeace" conference at Geneva, Aug. 8-20.
Eighty-three firms and organizations contributed to the official U. S. technical exhibit at the Palais des Nations, site of the United Nations sponsored conference. Limitations on space at the Palais building at the Conference site resulted in a United Nations requirement that all exhibits there be sponsored by participating govermnents, be non-commercial in character, and be designed primarily for the delegates and technical experts attending the Conference.
Fourteen commercial publishers and approximately 30 scientific, engineering and other professional organizations were represented in a display of more than 100 U. S. periodicals in the nuclear energy field.
Also the AEC contributed a technical reference library of several thousand AEC unclassified reports.
A 10-kilowatt operating research reactor of the "pool" type highlighted the U. S. official exhibit. (See this JOURNAL, Vol. 259, p. ,53,3.) In addition, there were scale models of power and research reactors operating or planned in the United States.
Many additional national and commercial exhibits were displayed at the spacious Exposition Palace in mid-city. They included the "Atom-for-Peace" exhibit of the l;. S. Information Service, covering 15,000 sq.