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GENERAL INFORMATION
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (INCT) is one of the successors of
the Institute of Nuclear Research (INR) which was established in 1955. The latter
Institute, once the biggest Institute in Poland, has exerted a great influence on the
scientific and intelectual life in this country. The INCT came into being as one of the
independent units established after the dissolution of the INR in 1983.
At present, the Institute research activity is focused on:
• radiation chemistry and technology,
• radiochemistry and coordination chemistry,
• radiobiology,
• application of nuclear methods in material and process engineering,
• design of instruments based on nuclear techniques,
• trace analysis and radioanalytical techniques,
• environmental research.
In the above fields we offer research programmes for Ph.D. students.
At this moment, with its nine electron accelerators in operation and with the staff
experienced in the field of electron beam (EB) applications, the Institute is one of the
most advanced centres of radiation research and EB processing. The accelerators are
installed in the following Institute units:
• pilot plant for radiation sterilization of medical devices and transplants,
• pilot plant for radiation modification of polymers,
• experimental pilot plant for food irradiation,
• pilot plant for removal of SO 2 and NO x from flue gases,
• pulse radiolysis laboratory, in which the nanosecond set-up was put into operation
in 2001. A new 10 MeV accelerator was constructed in the INCT for this purpose.
Based on the technology elaborated in our Institute, an industrial installation for
electron beam flue gas treatment has been implemented at the EPS “Pomorzany” (Dolna
Odra PS Group). This is the second full scale industrial EB installation for SO 2 and
NO x removal all over the world.
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In 2005, the INCT scientists published 76 papers in scientific journals registered in
the Philadelphia list, among them 46 papers in journals with an impact factor (IF)
higher than 1.0. The INCT research workers are also the authors of 23 chapters in
scientific books published in 2005.
In 2005, the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) granted 5 research projects.
Altogether the INCT is carrying out 23 MES research projects including 3 ordered
projects and 1 implementation project, and 6 research projects supported financially
by the European Commission.
Annual rewards of the INCT Director-General for the best publications in 2005
were granted to the following research teams:
• First degree group award to Krzysztof Bobrowski, Dariusz Pogocki, Grażyna
Strzelczak, Paweł Wiśniowski, Anna Korzeniowska-Sobczuk for a series of
papers concerning radiation and photochemically induced radical processes in
thioether compounds.