NUKLEONIKA 2006, 51(Suppl. 1):s3-s9
Andrzej G. Chmielewski
Department of Nuclear Methods in Process Engineering,
Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology,
16 Dorodna Str., 03-195 Warsaw, Poland
Developments regarding the radiation processing of materials are discussed in the paper. Radiation
sources are briefly listed, showing recent achievements in the field. The main group of materials
modified by radiation are synthetic polymers and rubber. Other applications are irradiation of
semiconductors and gemstone colorization. New, growing fields of application are processing of
natural polymers and nanomaterials.