Civilian non-powered nuclear technology refers to nuclear technology other than nuclear weapons and nuclear power, civilian non-powered nuclear technology, including all kinds of gas pedals, nuclear detectors, imaging devices, radiation medical equipment, radioisotopes and products (therapeutic and imaging drugs), radiation-modified materials, etc., the application field involves industry, agriculture, medical and health, environmental protection, resource exploration and public safety, etc.
Application fields include industry, agriculture, medical and health, environmental protection, resource exploration and public safety.
Civilian non-powered nuclear technology is an emerging high-tech industry developed through the cross-fertilization of nuclear technology and other industries, with broad application prospects. From a worldwide perspective, the development of civil non-power nuclear technology is synchronized with the overall economic development level of a country. With the United States, Japan as the representative of the economically developed countries, due to its strong technological foundation, the continuous optimization of industrial structure, the market demand pull and other factors, civil non-powered nuclear technology as a new economic unit has also been the rapid development, and penetrate into the economy and society in many areas. According to a report of the U.S. Management Information Institute in 1993, the contribution of non-power application of nuclear technology to the U.S. economy amounted to 257 billion U.S. dollars, which is 3.5 times that of nuclear power, accounting for 3.9% of the U.S. GDP, and creating 3.7 million jobs, which is 3.5 times that of nuclear power. China has now entered a period of comprehensive development of industrialization, has initially formed a more complete system with a certain scale and level. According to the statistics of China Isotope and Radiation Industry Association, the annual output value of civil non-power nuclear technology in 2003 was about 37.6 billion yuan, with about 50,000 employees. In recent years, China's government has increased the support for civil non-power nuclear technology. The National Development and Reform Commission has organized and implemented a special project for the high-tech industrialization of civil non-power nuclear technology since 2004, and approved support for 21 projects with a funding amount of 160 million yuan in one year alone. It is expected that by 2010, China's civil non-power nuclear technology industry scale will reach 100 billion.