Various benefits behind the Nuclear Risk
Though worried by the world community made Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, Japan, in fact nuclear has a lot of benefit in various fields such as food and agriculture, health, hydrology, and industry.
Company In Indonesia there are many small, medium and large, ask for assistance Applications Center for Isotope and Radiation Technology National Atomic Energy Agency (Batan PATIR). There is a company that asked for smoked fish are sterilized by radiation isotope so that the fish free of fungi and mold so durable without preservative. There is a geothermal company that asked for help tracking network of underground steam wells to know its potential, said the head PATIR, Dr. Zainal Abidin Dipl. Geo. In the field of health, nuclear radiation is used to detect diseases or abnormalities in addition to network with tracer techniques such as in cancer treatment. The same technique to examine the increasing weight of beef cattle with food and finding out what is most responsible enzymes in the digestive process and affect the increase in weight of cattle, said zainal.
Tracer technique was also used in oil and gas industry, geothermal, sugar, fertilizer and cement. Its use, among others, for pipeline leak testing and processing machine quickly and accurately without dismantling the construction so that save cost and time. Some private companies have been using radiation isotope for various applications including sterilization of food for free from mold and mildew. The same way is also used for sterilization of disposable syringes.
In the tire company, radioisotope power tie molecules make better rubber. The same is done for rubber gloves. In agriculture, various rice varieties resulting from the process of nuclear irradiation with gamma ray irradiation, rice seed was forced to mutate. Seeds which have undergone mutation and selection in plant and carried out according to the desired properties, and plants that do not contain any guarantee as for the nuclear residue.
Rewritten by : Edi Nugroho
Source : Kompas Daily Newspaper
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