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Following table provides the details of consents issued for Medical Radiation Facilities during the year.

Nuclear
Radiotherapy X-ray
Type of Consent Medicine
503
56,660
(735 Teletherapy 350
No. of Facilities (Equipment) (77,346)
+316 Brachytherapy)
Licence* 206 170 19,747

Permission for Import/Procurement of Equipment 152 64 10,458

Permission for Procurement of Radioactive Sources 419 2314 ---

Type Approval/Renewal (Equipment) 19 --- 169

Layout Approval 325 160 ---

*Licence includes Licence / Authorisation / Registration for various radiation facilities

Industrial Applications of Radiation Sources

Radiation Processing Facilities (RPF)
RPF includes Gamma Radiation Processing Facility (GRAPF)/ Gamma
Irradiators and Electron Beam Accelerators are used mainly for radiation
processing of food (i.e. inhibiting sprouting, delay in ripening, microbial
decontamination, insect disinfestation, shelf-life extension etc.),
sterilisation of healthcare products and crosslinking of polymers in cable
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industries. The activity range is about few PBq (eg.10 Bq) of Co.

Industrial Accelerators Radiation Processing Facility (IARPF) operated
in electron mode of energy range from 1.5 to 3 MeV and are mainly
used for cross linking of polymers. One of the benefits of accelerators
is that, unlike radioactive sources, it produces radiation only when
they are energized.
The RPFs are of high radiation hazard potential.

Research Accelerators

Research Accelerators or Particle Accelerator Research Facilities (PARF) are generally installed in academic
& research institutions and catering to the research needs of various fields of high energy physics, material
science, radiation studies etc. Accelerators installed in our country
operated in the energy range from a few hundreds of keV to GeV.
The hazard associated with the facilities also diverse in nature and
ranges from very high-to-moderate hazard potential. The radiation
hazard potential of an accelerator mainly depends on the type of
ion(s) accelerated, type of accelerator and beam parameters (e.g.
energy & current, target system). Besides radiation hazard, other
industrial hazards such as electrical, mechanical, RF, magnetic,
cryogenic etc. are also present in an accelerator facility.

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