Main functions:

    The Irradiation Center is equipped with a semi-commercial gamma irradiation facility. It was supplied by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under TC-Project VIE/8/004. The facility consists of an irradiator used Co-60 radioactive sources with activity of 110 kCi, conveyer system and control panels that permit processing products in continuous range or in batches.

The facility is being used as a multipurpose one for the following applications and research activities:

• Sterilization of medical products: Surgical gloves, surgical "wing fusion sets, syringes, and graft tissues...
• Processing of materials : modification of polymers, coloring glasses, vulcanization of natural rubber latex..
• Preservation of food: onion, potato, fresh fruits, spices, dried fish, cereals, mushroom ...
• Insect disinfection and mould control of tobacco, bamboo articles, medicinal herbs.. Sterilization of peat soil for producing the microbiological fertilizers.
• The facility is also servicing as a tool for the others research projects such as: development and application of dosimetry systems for radiation processing’s, and research in agriculture...