The role of accelerators
Description
Although routine applications of low-energy accelerators are numerous, high energy accelerators (4.5 to 15 MeV) have considerable untapped potential. AECL has developed the high-energy high-power family of IMPELA linacs; also, the accelerator irradiator AECL I-10/1 installed at Whiteshell Laboratories is used for research on applications of radiation, such as crosslinking of plastics, sterilization of animal feeds, and treatment of wastes. Compared to gamma irradiators, accelerators have the obvious advantage that they can be switched off, and generally they are useful where radiation penetration depths of tens of centimetres ar adequate; accelerators can moreover be used to generate bremsstrahlung, but their efficiency in the photon mode is less than in the direct mode
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Technical and economic
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the Canadian Nuclear Association 28. annual conference
- Imprint Pagination
- 413 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 355-366.
- Report number
- INIS-mf--13849
Conference
- Title
- Canadian Nuclear Association 28. annual conference; Canadian Nuclear Society 9. annual conference.
- Dates
- 12-15 Jun 1988.
- Place
- Winnipeg, MB (Canada).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 25031433
- Subject category
- S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; S60: APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD; ELECTRON BEAMS; IRRADIATION PLANTS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEV RANGE 01-10; POWER RANGE 10-100 KW; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; USES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BEAMS; CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; KILOWATT POWER RANGE; LEPTON BEAMS; MEV RANGE; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; POWER RANGE