Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1989
Average costs per pound of irradiating food are similar for the electron accelerator and cobalt-60 irradiators analyzed … and decrease as annual volumes treated increase. Cobalt-60 is less expensive than electron beams for annual volumes below … 50 million pounds. For radiation source requirements above the equivalent of 1 million curies of cobalt-60, electron …
