Proceedings of the FNCA 2007 Workshop on Application of Electron Accelerator; Radiation Processing of Natural Polymer; 2226 November 2007, Hochiminh, Vietnam

Tamada, Masao; Kume, Tamikazu

This workshop was jointly executed by Vietnamese Atomic Energy Commission and Japan Atomic Energy Agency and co-sponsored by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan and Vietnamese Science and Technology Agency under the cooperation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the practical applications of the radiation processing of the natural polymer and to make the plan of the practical project. The Philippines, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Egypt participated as member states of RCA. The crosslinked natural polysaccharides have been applied to the wound dressing sheets in India, South Korea, and Malaysia. The degraded chitosan was used for the fish culturing in China. In the graft polymerization, practical use as the soil conditioner was advanced in Vietnam. The next meeting will be scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China in October, 2008.