On July 25, Harbin Engineering University (HEU) hosted the Frontier Symposium on Tandem Accelerator Technology and Multidisciplinary Applications. Vice President HAN Duanfeng attended and delivered remarks at the opening ceremony.
HAN Duanfeng briefly introduced the HEU’s distinctive features and the development of its nuclear discipline. He ramarked that the symposium aimed to establish a high-level academic exchange platform, strengthen fundamental research in key theories, guide the development of innovative technological methods, promote collaboration and exchange among scholars across Northeast China and the country, and contribute to the high-quality development of the nuclear discipline and breakthroughs in advanced science and technology.
CAE Member ZHANG Huanqiao delivered an online speech. He emphasized that HEU should fully leverage the unique advantage of its tandem accelerator – “multi-purpose single machine, shared dual machines” – to produce landmark achievements in areas such as fundamental research on nuclear materials and radiation effect evaluation. He expressed hope that HEU would continue deepening cooperation with research institutions like the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) to further drive nuclear science and technology research using tandem accelerators, further fueling the nation's development as a nuclear power.
At the opening ceremony, HEU, jointly with 21 institutions from Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia, launched an initiative to establish the “Northeast China Particle Accelerator and Application Industry Technology Innovation Alliance”. The alliance will adhere to the principles of “innovation-driven, collaborative development, and open sharing”. By integrating regional innovation resources and building a collaborative industry-academia-research-application platform, it aims to boost the high-quality development of the nuclear technology industry in Northeast China.
The symposium was held at the site of China’s first domestically produced commercial tandem accelerator platform. This equipment, custom-designed for the university by the CIAE, is crucial for nuclear science research. It enables the study of material irradiation characteristics under multiphysics coupling effects, such as dual-beam irradiation, high temperature, and corrosion. It can be applied to research on irradiation effects in reactor materials, radiation effect evaluation, and fusion materials research.
