IAEA MEXICO
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLIT is an unlikely scenario: setting up nuclear devices to reduce, not increase, environmental pollution in one of the world's filthiest cities, but it is happening in Mexico City. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has donated new air particle analysis technology called PIXE (proton induce x-ray emissions) to city authorities. Their air samples are taken to the National Nuclear Research Institute of Mexico (ININ) whose scientists have been trained by the IAEA in using this kit. It shoots a beam of protons at a dust sample. ...
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