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A 5-10 MeV electron accelerator based irradiation facility for food and
agricultural products in Sabzi Mandi (Vegetable Market), Indore.
A radiation processing facility for development of irradiation applications.
Food irradiation
Benefits:
Foods and agricultural products are treated with ionizing radiation to accomplish different
objectives like reduction of pathogenic bacteria
and parasites that cause food borne diseases;
or lengthening the shelf-life of fresh fruits,
vegetables by decreasing the normal biological changes associated with growth
and maturation processes, such as ripening or sprouting.
Radiation processing of food has become important due to mounting concern over food
born diseases, and growing international trade in food products that must meet stiff import
standards of quality and quarantine.
A 10 MeV, 10 kW Linear accelerator based electron beam radiation processing facility
is being set up at RRCAT. The Linac has been developed by RF Section. For more details,
refer to webpage of RF Section. ARPF is planned to be a demonstration facility where
apart from regular radiation processing of agricultural and medical products, various issues
like proper irradiation techniques, packing, handling and storage on large scale and
economics of radiation processing will be studied and optimized. The facility will be
operated in electron (10 MeV) as well as photon mode (5 & 7.5 MV).
The electron beam will be scanned in a vacuum chamber to obtain 1.2 m wide radiation
field. The product handling system is designed to process the products in different packing
size with thickness varying from 8 cm to 45 cm and to deliver dose from 60 Gy to 25
kGy. Typical mass throughputs are 22 tons per hour for potatoes (5 MV Photon mode)
and1.8 tons per hour for spices (10 MeV electron mode). The conveyor has speed range of
0.15 m/min to 15 m/min. The facility has various safety interlocks to ensure safe operation.
A computer based control system is designed for the facility to ensure proper processing
of the product.
An experimental product handling system has been made to conduct various
experimental trials on different products for establishing parameters.
ITER-India
India is developing the heaviest and the largest parts of the Tokamak, the
machine behind the biggest scientific collaboration on the planet, to produce
unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and commercial energy from atomic
fusion.
The international nuclear fusion project known as ITER, meaning "the way" in
Latin, is based on the 'tokamak' concept of magnetic confinement, in which
the plasma is contained in a doughnut-shaped vacuum vessel.
The temperature within the gigantic machine will, therefore, reach 10 times
the temperature at the core of the Sun.
Strong magnetic fields will be used to keep the plasma away from the walls.
India will be one of the significant creators of the Tokamak which will weigh
23,000 tons-as heavy as three Eiffel Towers-with a plasma volume of 840
cubic metres.
The main feature of the 180 hectare ITER site in Cadarache, southern France,
is a man-made level 42 hectare platform that would be 1 kilometre long and
400 metres
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)