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persons are sent out for
overseas training every year. Hundreds
of overseas researchers are invited to China to give lectures
every year.
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Members of the Delegations visited the following research facilities
(1)
(2)
this is an experimental
among other things, fuel
Heavy Water Reactor
reactor, and performs,
tests for the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant at
Shanghai.
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Isotope products production line we were told that most of the products are for medical use and
for export; China and Canada being the two major exporting countries at present.
(3) Miniature Neutron
mini-reactor
Source
Reactor
performs
neutron
as geology,
this
activation
analysis. It has performed sample tests in many
fields,
such
environmental
protection, biology, medicine, industrial and
(4)
agricultural products.
it
Spent fuel and component research laboratory
performs analysis on spent fuel and fuel
claddings from various types of reactors.
(5)
Tandem Accelerator
it has 5 experimental
compartments, and performs basic research
on
nuclear science.
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Apart from the above, we were also told that Institute performs the following main areas of research :-
the