Nuclear Industry

Nuclear industry is a comprehensive new industrial sector of nuclear energy development and utilization. It includes radioactive geological exploration, uranium mining, hydrometallurgy, uranium refining, uranium isotope separation, nuclear fuel element manufacturing, various types of reactors, nuclear power plants, spent fuel reprocessing, radioactive waste treatment and disposal, lithium isotope separation, radioactive isotope production, nuclear weapons production and other production enterprises and scientific research, design units. It has an important role in the national economy: using nuclear energy to transform it into electrical energy, thermal energy and mechanical power, which can obtain safe, clean and high calorific value energy; providing a variety of radioisotope products, isotope instrumentation and radiation technology, in radiation processing, food preservation, medical diagnosis, etc