Country Report: the Philippines Status of Radiation Treatment of Liquid Samples in the Philippines

摘要

As an institute committed to improve the quality of life of the Filipino people, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (formerly the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission) undertakes research and development programs and projects, where the unique advantages of nuclear energy and radiation are exploited. Aware that radiation has diverse industrial applications such as in radiation sterilization, radiation cross-linking, radiation curing and food irradiation, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) has been at the forefront in research and development work on the application of radiation processing for about three decades now. In the early days, R&D work has been limited because the available irradiation facilities then were a ~(60)Co gamma garden, a Gammacell-200 and a 740 TBq (20,000 Ci) ~(60)Co source stored in the pool of the PNRI nuclear research reactor. A more vigorous R&D program on radiation processing has been on going with the availability of a pilot scale multipurpose gamma irradiation facility, which was commissioned in 1989. With the technical assistance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), PNRI has strengthened its capability on radiation chemistry and radiation processing, both in terms of manpower and equipment.