Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method known as pyrolysis, resulting in radiolysis, plastic waste polymers can be ...

As gamma rays pass through the packaging and syringe, they will kill viruses and bacteria which contaminate the syringe. As long as the equipment remains in a sealed plastic pack it will remain ...

gamma rays and X-rays, mutation detection and pre-breeding technologies, to enhance food security and sustainable crop production systems worldwide. Through its laboratories in Seibersdorf, Austria, ...

A new way to locate peat soils using gamma ray detectors mounted on aircraft has been developed by Irish scientists. Most of Ireland’s peatlands emit carbon because of land drainage and peat ...