On October 22, the reporter learned from Liaoyang High-tech Zone that after more than 6 years of hard work, Liaoning Honghao Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has successfully developed and produced a series of boron-10 products, filling the domestic gap. Advanced level, breaking the foreign monopoly in the research and development and production of this product in one fell swoop.
Boron is abundant in nature, but it is a worldwide problem to successfully separate the isotope boron-10 from boron. Boron-10 has a very strong ability to absorb neutrons and is a material for shielding nuclear radiation. It has an irreplaceable role in the defense industry, medicine and other fields. At present, only a few in the world, such as the United States, Russia, and Japan, have realized industrialized production.
Since the early 1970s, my country has started the research and development of boron-10 separation, but due to the constraints of the process route, equipment and other aspects, it has not been able to form industrial production, and the abundance value of the test samples is far lower than the customer's requirements. Since 2010, Liaoning Honghao Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has aimed at this frontier topic in the world and invested nearly 200 million yuan in the research and development of boron-10 products.
In the past 6 years, Liaoning Honghao Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has reorganized the research team on the original basis. Relying on independent research and development, it has overcome many difficulties, and finally successfully trial-produced boron-10 acid with a mature process in October this year. It has become a domestic enterprise capable of producing boron-10 acid with an abundance of more than 95%, filling the domestic gap and getting rid of the situation of dependence on imports.
At the same time, Liaoning Honghao Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. organized scientific and technical personnel to develop a new way to separate boron isotopes, which overcomes the shortcomings of traditional separation methods such as long cycle, high energy consumption and high cost, greatly shortens the production cycle, and improves the separation efficiency. The technological process is mature, the product abundance is high, the impurities are few, and the market prospect is broad.
According to reports, next year, Liaoning Honghao Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. will officially produce boron-10 series products, completely breaking the technical barriers set by foreign countries to my country, and contributing to the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning's old industrial base and the development of my country's civil nuclear industry.