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" new reactor will make certain Australia remains at the forefront of cancer treatments "
> I thought it interesting how "cancer treatment" leads the way in public
> relations campaigns like the article below, but when it actually comes
> down to "remaining at the forefront" of medicine, ANSTO balked at
> including a BNCT facility at the new Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney,
> leaving Australia's group of BNCT researchers high & dry.
> Regrettably, this hypocritical approach is also taken in Canada's proposal
> for the new CNF reactor.
> One bit of good news in all this is that at least the Koreans modified the
> HANARO Maple reactor which Canada built for them, to include a BNCT
> facility.
> Guess who's going to "remain at the forefront" of medicine.
>
> Jaro
> http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html
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> 2004 February 17
> New Executive Director of Australia's ANSTO Named
> Dr Ian Smith has been appointed executive director of the Australian
> Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australian science
> minister Peter McGauran announced yesterday.
>
> Mr McGauran said: "I warmly welcome Dr Ian Smith, whose science,
> innovation and business background combined with experience in
> commercialising scientific research will be of enormous value to ANSTO."
>
> The Australian-born Dr Smith has been the deputy vice-chancellor
> (Research, Enterprise and International) at the University of Otago, New
> Zealand, since 1995. Among other roles, Dr Smith has previously held
> senior management positions with the Comalco Research Centre and CRA
> Advanced Technical Development. His 36 years in metallurgical engineering
> include a long list of academic and research achievements. His early
> research was conducted at the former Atomic Energy Commission; now ANSTO.
>
> In announcing the appointment, minister McGauran said it is "an exciting
> time" to work at ANSTO, Australia's only research organisation devoted to
> nuclear science and technology. He said construction of a modern,
> multipurpose nuclear research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney is well
> underway - and is intended to benefit Australia in a variety of fields:
> medicine, the environment, agriculture, industry, mining, science and
> education. Mr McGauran said: "The new reactor will make certain Australia
> remains at the forefront of cancer treatments as well as emerging
> technologies."
>
> Dr Smith replaces professor Helen Garnett, who headed ANSTO for nine years
> until last October, when she left to become foundation vice-chancellor of
> Charles Darwin University, in the country's Northern Territory.
>
> Source: Australian ministry of science / ANSTO
> Editor: Daniel MacIsaac
>