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Denmark has no domestic uranium deposits; however, the Danes have been actively exploring for uranium in Greenland. Tentatively deposits there are estimated to contain 5,000 to 6,000 tons of uranium and 15,000 tons of thorium, but the low grade of the ore and the remoteness of the deposits do not make them economically exploitable at the current market prices. No commercial mining is taking place.

Denmark is active in international atomic energy affairs and has agreements for peaceful uses of atomic energy with the UK and the USSR (The US-Danish bilateral atomic energy agreement expired on 24 July 1973.) It is also a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), EURATOM, and numerous other international organizations.

4. Electronics (S)

Danish research in communications and electronics deals primarily with lasers and computers, with relatively little research in other electronic fields. The H.D. Oersted Institute at Copenhagen, the most important of four facilities, is concerned primarily with gas lasers and have built operational CO² helium-neon, argon, and cadmium vapor devices. Also, some basic research has been conducted in the areas of diffraction and the parameters of laser cavity design. A few students have done thesis work on lasers, e.g., Raman spectroscopy with helium-neon and second harmonic studies using potassium-diphosphate (KDP) crystals. Some of the optical components also are made there, principally laser mirrors and other optical components; some are made for a German company. The laser research apparently is for spectroscopy studies and is supported by the Danish State Science Foundation, which is similar to the US National Science Foundation. There appears to be little interest in the optical communications aspect of electro-optics. Two organizations involved in the Danish optical and electro-optical work are the Copenhagen University and the Technical University of Denmark.

The Institute of Physics of Arhus University is heavily engaged in basic research on semiconductors. The institute appears to be extremely well-funded, and the caliber of its personnel and quality of its equipment are high. The Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory of the Technical University of Denmark does some theoretical work on antenna arrays and solid-state microwave devices. The Academy of Technical Sciences constructed the first Danish computer, the DASK; in 1957 and in 1960 produced the GEIR for the Danish Geodesic Institute, Copenhagen. The GEIR is the first computer of purely Danish origin and is a fully transistorized, medium-sized, general-purpose machine.

Regnecentralen, a company located in Copenhagen, produced the RC4000, a general-purpose digital computer until 1973, when production of central processors ceased. The company now intends to import NOVA minicomputers from the Massachusetts-based Data General, Inc. Regnecentralen purchases the necessary software and peripheral equipment from US and European manufacturers and assembles and sells complete computer systems in Europe and the USSR; the latter receives the bulk of the company business. The quality of computer research in Danish universities has improved considerably since 1968. Computer activities are centralized under the direction of Datacentralen, Copenhagen, which was founded by the government in cooperation with local governmental authorities throughout Denmark. The center is equipped with large computers of US manufacture and provides economical data processing facilities.

The Danish telecommunications and electronics industry, which includes radar, is fully capable of producing required quantities for the armed forces as well as considerable amounts for worldwide export. Military radio communications equipment produced includes fixed, mobile, vehicular, and portable types and is based primarily on US-supplied grant aid furnished in the early 1960s. Other electronic equipment produced includes artillery ranging radar, a uniquely constructed navigational radar, a man-pack infantry patrol radar that was developed under contract of the Ministry of Defense, a long-range acquisition radar, and a surveillance and fire control radar. Electronic training devices have been produced, such as a simulator of communications satellites, used by ESRO for checking ground equipment.

Denmark produces no optical or photographic materiel of military value, and army requirements are satisfied entirely through imports. Native sources of army materiel are not known but probably correspond with those for the civilian market, in which the United States, West Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom are the main suppliers. No infrared materiel is produced in Denmark. Substantial investments have been made in Swiss detection devices, as well as sighting, observation, and night-driving devices manufactured by various NATO countries.

5. Medical sciences

Danish biomedical research is equal in quality to that of the most advanced western nations. Volume of

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