Article ID: CBB486458390

Creating the need in Mexico: The IAEA’s technical assistance programs for less developed countries (1958-68) (2020)

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Mateos, Gisela (Author)
Suárez-Díaz, Edna (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 418-436


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Development Interventions: Science, Technology, and Technical Assistance
Language: English

Nuclear technologies and skills were not easily sold as tools for development for the less developed countries. Beginning in 1958, the International Atomic Energy Agency, as part of the United Nations Expanded Program of Technical Assistance, looked to create the need for nuclear technical assistance around the world, with the expectation that countries would climb a supposed developmental ladder that went from radioisotope applications in medicine, agriculture and industry among others, and up to the construction of nuclear power reactors. The case of Mexico reveals the heterogenous levels of professionalization of the different nuclear disciplines existing in the country, and the lack of meaningful connections between technical assistance requests and the developmental model favored by the Mexican government during the 1960s. We oppose the historicity of nuclear physics, radiochemistry, and nuclear engineering in this country, to the telos of development.

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Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rentetzi, Maria
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Gabriella Ivacs
Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis
Jessica M. Kim
Pichardo Hernández, Hugo
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Science and politics
Technical assistance
Economic development
International cooperation
International relations
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Mexico
United States
South Africa
France
Soviet Union
Los Angeles (California)
Institutions
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
United Nations
CENTO Nuclear Institute
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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