Operation of electron accelerator and -ray irradiation facilities

Haruyama, Yasuyuki; Hanaya, Hiroaki; Yamagata, Ryohei; Seito, Hajime; Kaneko, Hirohisa; Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki*; Yagi, Norihiko*; Takagi, Masahide*; Kawashima, Ikuo*; Matsuzaki, Shinya*

The accelerator served mainly for graft-polymerization for new material development, radiation effect study on semiconductors and various experiments of visiting users. The annual operation time of the electron accelerator was 947.9 h. The Co-60 -ray irradiation facilities consist of three buildings and cover a wide dose-rate range from 0.04 Gy/h to 20 kGy/h with eight irradiation rooms. The first irradiation facility served mainly for radiation-resistance testing of cables used in nuclear power plants. The second irradiation facility (No.6 irradiation room) operated as hourly scheduled. The food irradiation facility served radiation at lower dose rates. The annual operation time for the first, second cobalt irradiation facilities and food irradiation facility was 15,971 h, 12,389 h and 7,681 h respectively.