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The Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research (SINR) started organizing and construction in October 1958, and was founded in August 1959. It is engaged in in tomography, testing of solid missile propellants, explosives, and detonation packages for nuclear weapons.
SINR consists of the Laboratory of Nuclear Analysis Techniques, the Laboratory of Radiation Chemistry, and various other research divisions and centers. The SINR offers programs leading to master's and doctoral degrees and postdoctoral research activities. The Shanghai Nuclear Society is associated to the SINR.
The Laboratory of Nuclear Analysis Techniques, hosted by both SINR and Institute of High Energy Physics, has opened to the world since 1990. the laboratory sustained by the techniques of accelerator, nuclear radiation detection and automatic control, offers programs in nuclear analysis technique applications and fundamental researches in material, environmental, life and geology sciences. The Nuclear Physics Division utilizes nuclear physics facilities of both abroad and domestic to study heavy ion reactions, nuclear spectroscopy and nuclear many-body problems. Studies on techniques and applications of accelerators and manufacturing for markets are carried out in the applied accelerator laboratory. The applied accelerator techniques and products are extensively used in archaeology, irradiation processing, environmental and earth sciences.The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) is one of the biggest large science projects between the period of the 9th Five Years Plan and the beginning of 10th FYP. The project will, according to the schedule, start running and open to users in the year 2004. The designed electron beam energy of the storage ring will be 3.5 GeV, the circumference of the ring is about 384m and the area of the facility will reach 33000m2. SSRF will be one of the most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world.
The Shanghai Nuclear Technique Development Corporation Limited, (the previous Shanghai Nuclear Technique Development Corporation) was the first technology development corporation set up by the SINR. A group of science and technology enterprises have come into being one by one from the corporation. The major responsibility of the corporation is to gradually assume management and administration for properties of all the science and technology enterprises in the Institute.
