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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General met with Mr Andrzej GÅ‚owacki, President of the National Atomic Energy Agency, during a bilateral meeting at the IAEA 68th General Conference held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 16 September 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Delegation:
Mr Andrzej GÅ‚owacki, President of the National Atomic Energy Agency
Mr. Arkadiusz Michoński, Charge d’affaires a.i., Minister plenipotentiary, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office and the International Organizations in Vienna
Mr. Paweł Pytlarczyk, Director, Department of Nuclear Energy, Ministry of Industry
Ms. Aleksandra Brzózka-Kowalska, Chief specialist, Department of Nuclear Energy, Ministry of Industry
IAEA:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Jacek Bylica, IAEA Chief of Cabinet
Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director-General
Ewelina Hilger, IAEA Special Advisor to the Director-General
Ruzanna Harman, IAEA Chief of Protocol
Aline des Cloizeaux, IAEA
Mehmet Ceyhan, IAEA
Liliya Dulinets, IAEA
Unfortunately I don't have a good recollection as to what is actually in each one of these photos, but NIST F1 does not actually track the time, instead, it is used to calibrate and control other atomic clocks that serve the NIST time signal. It is currently accurate for 1 second in 60 million years. For more information see tf.nist.gov/cesium/fountain.htm
National Atomic Testing Museum
Early Settlers
The ill-fated "Death Valley '49ers," expecting to take a shortcut to California through uncharted territory, were the first recorded travelers crossing the present Nevada Test Site. In 1871, Lieutenant Wheeler, on a second mapping expedition to the area. stated this "entire section" of the southwest was "one of the most desolate regions upon the face of the earth." In fact, he added, due primarily to the scarcity of water, early settlers and miners called this entire region "Death Valley."
Miners and Ranchers
Beginning in 1849, prospectors began scouring the West for gold and silver. Little was found or mined on what is now the Nevada Test Site. In the late 1920s a boomtown sprung up at Cane Springs/Wahmonie over a discovery that quickly disappointed. However, most of the early claims and mines were in the northeast corner of the site in the Oak Spring District. The Climax Mine there yielded tungsten for almost three decades. In the late 1800s, off-site ranchers grazed their cattle on the site, and built some structures and water storage tanks there for the cattle. Some ranching activities likely occurred at every spring in the area.
Detail from 'Sculpture Group Symbolizing World's Communication in the Atomic Age' by Harry Bertoia, 1959
January 16: Wally de Backer (Gotye) sings in Atomic Bomb! during the 2015 Sydney Festival
Credit: Jamie Williams
This is a replica of the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima ending the war with Japan.