As an important part of the development of China's nuclear industry, the development of China's nuclear application technology industry will be further accelerated during the 11th five-year plan period, with isotope products, radiation processing, nuclear equipment and reactor technology as the main contents.
Nuclear application technology refers to the new and high technology applied in the fields of industry, agriculture, medical and health care, environmental protection, resource exploration and public safety, etc., in addition to nuclear weapons and nuclear power. In recent years, China's nuclear application technologies such as semiconductor processing, medical radiation imaging, radiation therapy, food irradiation processing, polymer irradiation processing, radiation breeding, isotopes and instrumentation have been greatly developed. Currently, there are about 300 units engaged in nuclear technology development and production in China.
However, at present, the nuclear application technology in China is still in the initial stage of industrialization, the industrial scale and the contribution to the national economy are relatively small, and there is a significant gap compared with developed countries. The types of isotopic products that can be produced in China are only 10% of that in developed countries. Many large nuclear medical equipment are completely dependent on imports, and industrial irradiation accelerators are mainly dependent on imports. In 2004, the national development and reform commission listed the nuclear application technology industry as a key high-tech industry for development. It was proposed to take about five years to achieve an industrial scale of 100 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 400 billion yuan by 2020.
Understands from China national nuclear corporation, China during the "tenth five-year plan has built up a series of nuclear application technology for industrialization of achievements, at present already basic completed or can be used for a new type of nuclear seawater desalination device, practical explosives inspection device, irradiation foaming materials, analyzer, portable media used in burn treatment hydrogel dressing, high-energy, high-power irradiation accelerator, bone tumor treatment" master ", sewage microbial processing equipment, etc. These achievements have high technological content and great market potential, which provide guarantee for the sustainable development of nuclear application technology industry in China.
As the backbone of China's nuclear application technology industry, China national nuclear industry corporation had total assets of 2 billion yuan by 2005, and achieved sales revenue of 1.55 billion yuan. Group company officials said that during the period of "11th five-year plan" will apply nuclear technology industry as a new growth point, strive to make our country the development of nuclear technology industry to achieve a new level, basic solve the problem of localization of isotopes of raw material for domestic supply, several new type accelerator and radiation chemical will speed up to market new products, and establish a radiation processing and tests of nuclear medicine, nuclear medicine supply new service mode.