This method increases the shelf life of products. It is convenient because the products are processed in packages, and the procedure itself is simple and fast. Cold pasteurization is safe and meets the highest standards, as it eliminates the use of harmful chemical preservatives. That is why the products processed by this method are clean and safe, compared to other methods.

Another area of use of the accelerators of ELV – treatment of waste water. They were used in the liquidation of the ecological disaster in Voronezh (more than 30 years ago), when the waste of the production of "Voronezhsintezkauchuk" got into the city water intake, as well as in the wastewater treatment of textile production in the city of Daegu in South Korea. These are the only examples in the world of using accelerators as full-scale installations for environmental purposes.

When exposed to ionizing radiation, some of the microorganisms perish and the others lose the ability to reproduce. The sterility assurance level after irradiation complies with modern medical standards (SAL 10-6); i.e., there is one or less nonsterile unit in one million products.

· Cables for submersible pumps
· Power wires and cables
· Cables for outside house and street wiring
· Cables for wind power generators.

Advantages of radiation treatment:

• Breaking strength increases by 20–40%;
• Impact breaking strength increases up to 200%.

Polyethylene foam is an elastic material with properties such as:

• excellent thermal insulation
• protection against moisture and steam
• airtightness
• noise insulation
• soft and light weight
• rot resistance and durability
• ecological safety
  

Under irradiation, a 3–5% aqueous solution of polyethylene oxide forms a hydrogel, which serves as a basis for medicinal compounds, cosmetics, and burn and wound dressings and provides an intermediate medium in ultrasound diagnostics.

Nanopowders are obtained by evaporation from melts. They are used as feedstock materials in the production of ceramic and composite materials, superconductors, solar panels, filters, getters, additives for lubricants, coloring and magnetic pigments, and components of low-temperature high-strength solders.

This is a facility that accelerates charged particles to very high energies. This device enables the generation of beams of primary charged particles as well as secondary ones (e.g., photons, neutrons, etc.), i.e., those that originate from collisions of a primary particle beam with a substance.

Accelerators have an important function to help scientists to explore properties of the elementary patricles, which is of great importance in nuclear physics and solid state physics. However, there are enough specialists from the other areas like chemists, biologists and geologists who are interested in particle accelaration. Besides, accelerators are now being applied in such applications like medicine, metallurgy and food industry.

How can we accelerate a particle?

For a particle to move faster, two "instruments" must be in place: an electric field and a magnetic field. The electric field is capable of changing the particle's energy while the magnetic one sets it into the right direction without affecting the particle's other properties. In other words, if we wish to accelerate a particle, we should put it into an electromagnetic field. However, to obtain higher-energy particles, we need field generators of greater power capability and a sufficient expanse for the acceleration.

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Several parameters exist to classify accelerators. Based on the particle path, they are divided into cyclic and linear. Based on the type of the accelerating field, they are classified into resonant and nonresonant. Resonant ones accelerate particles by means of a high-frequency alternating electromagnetic field; the particles accelerate by moving in resonance with the polarity alternations so as to constantly overcome the potential difference (it is this process that creates acceleration). In nonresonant accelerators, the field direction does not change.

Moreover, accelerators can be classified by the type of accelerated particles, by beam continuity, by the prevailing field (magnetic or electric), and by other properties.

In linear accelerators, in contrast to cyclic ones, particles pass through the accelerating structure only once. To achieve the right speed, the particles are initially boosted to a certain speed and set in a straight path. A large acceleration gradient can boost particles to very high energies although they pass though the accelerating portion of their trajectory only once.

How are linear accelerators different from the rest?

First of all, linear accelerators have a relatively small size—there is no need in cumbersome magnetic systems. Moreover, they provide an easy release of the beam and high density of the current.

The INP accelerators have a simple design. Because of that, they are reliable and have no need in accurate stabilization of the thermal regime; i.e., they can begin to irradiate without long preheating. In addition, these facilities require relatively inexpensive supplies.

What are their advantages?

In the early 1960s, Gersh I. Budker launched at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, which now bears his name, the development of high-power industrial accelerators. In the early years, these facilities had an energy of 1–1.5 MeV and an electron beam power of 10 kW, which was considered good characteristics.

At first, the INP developed direct-acting high-voltage accelerators of the transformer type. In 1970, after confirming the efficiency of the electron–beam modification of polymer wire insulation, the USSR Ministry of Electrotechnical Industry placed a big order with the INP for—they ordered 15 accelerators at once—but they moved the goalposts: they demanded a higher electron beam power and a more reliable and maintainable facility, which should also be easy to operate. After receiving the order, the INP decided that instead of improving the old transformer-type machines (ELTs), they should develop new ones based on the high-voltage rectifier. This model of accelerators was called the ELV.

In the 1970s, the INP began to develop high-frequency industrial accelerators of the ILU type (pulse linear accelerators), which were originally intended to serve as preinjectors for the INP accelerator complexes.

The first one was the ILU-6 with a maximum beam power of up to 20–40 kW and an energy range of 1.5–2.5 MeV. These parameters allowed for a thicker insulation of the products being processed. Previously, the maximum energy of direct-acting accelerators did not exceed 1.5 MeV, and their power remained at 1–3 kW.

In the 1990s, the INP designed the ILU-10 accelerator with an energy of up to 5 MeV and a beam power of up to 50 kW. It generally reproduced the design of the ILU-6 accelerator, with the only difference that the ILU-10 resonator had a greater height and incorporated two high-frequency generators.

The growing market for disposable medical items and the increasing use of electron accelerators for food processing created a demand for accelerators with energies up to 10 MeV and a beam power of tens and hundreds of kW.

Calculations and work experience showed that a single-resonator system was inefficient in terms of energy at above 5 MeV due to an increase in resonator losses, which are proportional to the squared voltage. Therefore, to achieve higher energies, one should install several resonators consecutively and accelerate the beam electrons in several accelerating gaps. It is this scheme that was implemented at the INP. The new facilities were numbered 12 and 14 and had an energy range of 5.0–7.5 MeV and 7.5–10.0 MeV and a beam power of up to 60 kW and up to 100 kW, respectively.