1. Status on Radiation Processing in China
Zhang Jinrong
China Isotope & Radiation Corporation
PBNC2016, Beijing

2. China Isotope & Radiation Corporation
Overall
China Isotope & Radiation Corporation
Radiation Processing Industry
Gamma Facilities and Accelerators
Compare Gamma Facility and EB

3. Overall
Radiation processing industry has made great progress in the past 30 years.
137 gamma radiation facilities
design source loading capacity: 170 million curie
actual source loading: about 70 million curie
Annual sources demand of China: 11 million Ci
Annual output of domestic cobalt-60 sources: 7 million Ci

4. EB facilities used in radiation processing
400
200 57
400 electron accelerators in 2015
increase 200% from 200 units (year 2007) and
700% from 57 units (year 2003)

5. Radiation Processing in Chemical Industry
Main application
crosslink of wire and cable , foaming material
crosslink of heat-shrinkable material
polymerization for paints
grafting (battery membrane)

6. EB Facilities Application
others
Environment
Sterilization 10%
Chemical
Heat Shrink
Export
Cable
application
The output value of radiation crosslinking wire and cable has more than RMB20 billion.

7. Radiation Processing Service
The main radiation service:
Food radiation:
Irradiated food was 200 thousand tons per year, almost half of irradiated food in the world, 100% increase from year 2003 (100 thousand tons).
Sterilization of healthcare products:
Irradiation sterilization accounted for 20% of the whole healthcare sterilization products.
(2) Contribution to GDP
RMB25 billion in 2015 with Gamma ray and EB,
297% increase from year 2003 (6.3 billion)

8. China Isotope and Radiation Corporation (CIRC)
CIRC is a specialized company in CNNC nuclear technology application industry. It has the whole industry chain of products and services with the core of isotope products and radiation processing.
Chinese government qualified three companies for radiation facility design. CIRC owned two of them.
CIRC has seven gamma radiation facilities.

9. China Isotope and Radiation Corporation (CIRC)
Domestic cobalt-60 sources
7 million curie annually
Qinshan Candu reactors
from the beginning of 2010.
reduced short supply and high prices of industrial cobalt-60 in China

10. Radiation Processing Industry
Industry consolidation will be a trend and It should be based on the integration of industry group and industry chain.
The world economy slowdown and radiation processing industry will be affected, but not too much.
The people on healthy living requirements will continue to increase.
The growth rate of industrial irradiation will continue to rise.

11. Radiation Processing Industry
New areas of application of irradiation technology will continue to develop and practice.
New development opportunities:
Improvement of science and technology
New products and new technology emerge
Technological upgrading of existing products

12. Gamma Facilities and Accelerators
Gamma facilities developed fast in recent years. About new facilities were constructed annually.
Gamma facilities have completed overall layout, thus the new construction of gamma facilities will reduce.
During the thirteenth five-year plan period, the construction of new facilities will decrease. Annual new 2-3 facilities will be expected.

13. Gamma Facilities and Accelerators
Co-60 Sources Price
Cobalt source prices are impacted by the market and determined by supply and demand.
Three suppliers: Canada, Russia and China
The new gamma facilities reduced and the loading demand of existing facilities has not increased significantly in recent years.
So the price of Co-60 Sources will be stable.

14. Compare Gamma Facility and EB (X-ray)
Electron beam irradiation apparatus and gamma facilitiy are different; each has advantages and disadvantages.
Electron beams and X-rays can not completely replace the cobalt-60 source, but the quantities of electron beams will be much larger than gamma facilities.
If the efficiency of X-ray device improve significantly, prospects will be good in the future.

15. Compare Gamma Facility and EB (X-ray)
Gamma facilities will not be eliminated as a whole. Unsafe and inefficient small facilities will shutdown.
The overall amount of the gamma facilities will not increase too much, but the efficiency of the radiation industry will be improved.
Gamma facilities and EB will be long-term coexistence on the Chinese market.

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