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Nuclear Raw Materials Survey

Other Name: Establishment for the geologic and mining exploration
Location: Belgrade
Subordinate To: formerly under the Federal Nuclear Energy Commission; current authority is unclear, most likely it is the Ministry of Energy and Mines
Size: Multiple offices and outposts
Facility Status: N/A

In 1955, the Raw Materials Survey was established. Its primary activities included training scientific and technical staff in the fields of radiometric prospecting with Geiger-Muller and scintillation counters, prospecting with car-borne instruments, aerial gama-prospecting and other methodologies.

Source:
Slobodan Nakicenovic, Nuclear Energy in Yugoslavia, (Belgrade: Export Press, 1961), pp. 76, 77.

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