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Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) intends to switch the existing Co-60 irradiation facility to an e-beam X-ray 5-7Mev machine, due to security of Co-60 supply as well as increasing prices and the complexity of transportation to the unstable region (Middle East), which has been an issue in recent years. several national stakeholders are generally financially supportive to the switching...
With the development of radiation techniques, attempts were made to use both gamma radiation and electron beam radiation for the disinfection of various types of historical objects that were inhabited by microorganisms or insects, which ended up causing the objects' destruction. . However, these technologies suffer from some limits as total dose and dose rate can influence the efficient...
At the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) pursues an unprecedented effort to push further the frontiers of physics. Both the accelerator and its four detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb) collectively form a one-of-a-kind advanced technological system capable of producing and recording the most energetic particle collisions ever achieved under...
Due to the growing demands for medical device supplies in the world today, more effective, and efficient techniques for sterilization are currently being evaluated. Sterilization based on ionizing radiation is a widely used method globally for reducing disease-causing microorganisms in healthcare products. Currently, the Philippines is entering the market for radiation sterilization as the...
The shielding capabilities of five different glass systems, namely 60TeO$_2$–(30-x)ZnO–5Bi$_2$O$_3$–5TiO$_2$-xB$_2$O$_3$, where x varies from 0 to 10 mol\%, against photons, protons, alpha particles, neutrons, and carbon ions were investigated. The study involved the theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulations of various shielding parameters such as attenuation coefficients, mean free...
A 5SDH Tandem Pelletron accelerator was commissioned at the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission in 1999. It was to promote the use of ion beam analysis techniques (IBA) among the local scientific community for their research studies, as well as to perform collaborative projects with different potential users and collaborators from abroad. Many IBA applications have been done in cultural...
There's no industry without energy. There's no environment without clean energy. Renewables are too little too late--and they are much less than fully green. Moreover, renewable energy is not cheap—merely competitive amid high energy prices. HIF-IFE will do it all: stabilizing energy prices at earlier levels with the greenest of all energy sources.
Size is the key. The world energy system...
The Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is driven by a linear accelerator that is currently undergoing an upgrade to 2.8 MW proton beam power with 1.3 GeV proton energy. Besides powering the First Target Station, which is in operation since 2006, the accelerator will provide 700 kW of proton beam power to the Second Target Station (STS), which is currently in the...
Despite the tremendous development of oncology, castration-resistant prostate cancer remains a debilitating malignancy. One of the most promising approaches to address this issue is to exploit the advancements of nanomedicine in combination with well-established nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. Following this idea, we have developed the radioisotope nanocarrier platform of...
Since the introduction of particle accelerators in 1984, primarily employed in radiation therapy, industry, and security, Thailand has progressively utilized the advantages of accelerator technologies across various applications, expanding to agriculture, scientific research, and transportation. Notably, the “Siam Photon Source (SPS)”, a 1.2 GeV synchrotron light generator, was established in...
The Second Target Station (STS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be a 700 kW, 15 Hz pulsed spallation neutron source designed to provide the world’s highest brightness cold neutron beams to 18 beamlines. In order to produce the required neutron beam performance, two compact liquid hydrogen moderators are located above and below the tungsten spallation target within the Moderator...
The Second Target Station (STS) is currently under preliminary design at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). STS will significantly expand the existing capabilities of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at ORNL by constructing a second target station that utilizes the existing SNS accelerator and provides a world leading source of cold (long wavelength) neutrons. The Target System design...
Global concerns over plastic waste management have grown due to its negative impacts on aquatic and terrestrial environments. Despite their wide use, conventional plastic waste recycling methods such as chemical and mechanical recycling have limited efficiency. Radiation technologies, particularly gamma irradiation and Electron Beam (EB), offer promising plastic waste recycling alternatives by...
Nowadays, air-pollution-derived fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is fully acknowledged to be a major public health problem. PM2.5 generally corresponds to a very complex and heterogeneous mixture of both inorganic (e.g. metals, ions) and organic (e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: PAH) chemicals, and biological components (e.g. pollen, fungi). Beirut city is characterized by high transport...
Losartan (LOS) is among the most widely prescribed antihypertensive drugs worldwide, and methocarbamol (MET) is a commonly utilized analgesic in recent years. These pharmaceuticals are considered emerging contaminants, posing risks to the environment and aquatic ecosystems. Traditional wastewater treatment technologies currently face challenges in adequately eliminating these substances. In...
Sterilization by electron beam irradiation offers significant advantages. In the present work, the effect of e-beam on the physicochemical properties of honey was studied. Four commercially available honey samples were irradiated with the beams of 3.5MeV electrons at dose rate 10, 20, 30, and 40 kGy using the linear pulse acceleratorat Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology (BRIT), India....
The use of absorbent materials such as hydrogels is of interest to reduce the environmental impact of dyes in industry. These can be polymerized with ionizing radiation and functionalized with materials such as clays with the ability to bind organic and inorganic molecules. Our work group develops hydrogels polymerized with Gamma radiation (60Co), and, as the objective of this study, it was...
Cooper-67 ($^{67}$Cu) is becoming a trend radioisotope due to its theranostic applications. $^{67}$Cu has a half-life of around 2.58 days and a simultaneous emission of β$^-$ radiation and γ-rays. That trait makes this radionuclide useful for therapy and for diagnostic imaging through the SPECT-CT technique. As the scientific community look for adequate and efficient production routes, the...
The term "resource recovery facility" has replaced traditional wastewater treatment plants, reflecting the contemporary emphasis on circular economies where the recovery and recycling of water, nutrients, and energy take precedence. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is commonly employed in these facilities to manage wastewater solids or sludges. This process relies on anaerobic microorganisms to...
This work investigates the characteristics and properties of spallation targets in ADS (Accelerator Driven System). The aim is to obtain a high neutron flux with a hardened neutron spectrum for transuranic transmutation in a hybrid fission ADS system. The proposed system uses a proton source (a particle accelerator) with energies between 0.3 and 1.6 GeV, focusing on different high-density...
Artisanal mining is a growing segment of the mining industry in certain parts of the world. Workers are often not equipped with protective safety gear and are exposed to mining pollutants that can hurt the health and well-being of workers. As occupational biomonitoring studies within the mining industry of countries such as Sudan are limited, this study aimed to explore the utility of a...
Polymers are extensively used in medical devices. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a hydrophilic polymer, is one of the polymers used for various biomedical applications. The simple chemical structure and high hydroxyl group contents provide PVA-based materials with many desired properties. Various factors control the mechanical and electrical properties of PVA to produce a PVA-based material with...
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Nepal is a landlocked country around thirty million inhabitants. For decades, Cobalt-60 machines have been the workhorses of radiotherapy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Nepal. Their affordability, relative ease of use, and lower maintenance needs made them the go-to technology for providing essential cancer treatment. In recent years, the field of medical...
Fusion holds great promise as a clean and abundant energy source. However, traditional thermonuclear fusion encounters significant challenges due to the extreme temperatures required to overcome the coulomb barrier for two nuclei to fuse. In contrast, muon-catalyzed fusion presents an alternative approach that can surmount this barrier at significantly lower temperatures. Muons, with...
Muography has been an interesting experimental detection method for thick and dense materials, which typically eluded other forms of radiation detection, such as electron and gamma radiography. The applications of Muography ranges from observations of volcanic and pyramid structures to underground GPS function, border security control, cybersecurity of cosmic transmissions, etc. It can be seen...
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Argentina (ARN), through the ‘Class I Particle Accelerators Control Department’, develops the regulatory tasks associated to the radiation protection of Class I Accelerator facilities. The group of facilities under control includes from R&D linear accelerator facilities to radiopharmaceutical production facilities with cyclotron. Furthermore, the Department...
The MeV Test Area (MTA) secondary beamline at Fermilab has been designed to efficiently generate and capture a high-emittance, low-energy pion beam using the 400 MeV primary proton Linac beam on a tungsten target, leading to a tertiary muon beam from decay along its secondary path. The beamline can also capture surface muons (+) produced at the target. However, a key challenge lies in the...
Natural radioactivity is extensively existing in the earth’s natural environment because it is composed of the cosmogonic and primordial radionuclides, hence it is commonly occurring in different ecological, geological as well as environmental formations like, rocks, soils, sand, plants, water, and air. There are several other industries such as Coal fired power plants, Phosphate fertilizer...
The proposed theme of this research focuses on studying, developing and nationalizing an automated system scanning the Dynamtron ® DC1500/25/4 electron beam accelerator with energy of 1.5 MeV , beam current of 25 mA and beam scanning of 60 to 120 cm , with a total power of 150 kW, installed at Ipen-CNEN /SP in 1978 and since then used in radiosterilization, disinfestation , treatment of...
The polymeric materials are extensively being employed for the various applications such as health care, storage, packaging materials for the foods, beverages, and saline etc. The most commonly used polymer in these applications are polyethylene terephthalate (PET) silicone rubber, polyurethane, due to their flexibility, low cost, biocompatible nature and other properties. However, these...
