Z. Zimek, H. Rzewuski, W. Migdał
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16, 03-195 Warsaw, Poland
The operation of the first electron accelerator at the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology -
INCT the former Institute of Nuclear Research was started in 1971. It was an UHF linac LAE 13/9.
Since then 8 more accelerators have been installed in the INCT to be applied in radiation chemistry
and radiation physics. These are: a HF resonance accelerator ILU 6 (1988), an electrostatic accelerator
AS-2000 (1987), an UHF linac Pilot 1 (1990), two transformer high power low energy accelerators ELV
type 3A (1991), two UHF linacs Elektronika U-003 (1992) and UHF linac LAE 10 (1995). In addition
to basic studies many technological problems were investigated on the laboratory and the pilot
plant scale. The main technologies developed using the accelerators are: radiation sterilization,
modification of semiconductors, modification of polymers, manufacturing of heat shrinkable
materials (tubes and tapes), food preservation and hygenization, hygenization of municipal sewage
sludges, flue gas treatment by radiation and others.