Preserving art and cultural heritage is a shared ambition of the global community. The IAEA uses nuclear science and technology to characterize and preserve artefacts and thereby preserve an important part of a country’s cultural heritage.
High-energy radiation can have a profound effect on the biological or chemical properties of materials. This effect can be used to disinfest cultural heritage artefacts and help restore them. Unlike chemical or physical methods, radiation does not leave any traces on the previous objects, nor do they become radioactive.
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