# Institute of Modern Physics
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China Installs First Superconducting Linac for Mass Production of Scarce Alpha Cancer Isotopes
China’s Institute of Modern Physics has installed the main accelerator for IP-SAFE, a superconducting linac demonstrator intended to mass-produce scarce alpha-emitting isotopes Ac-225 and Ra-223. The facility aims to ease global shortages that constrain targeted alpha therapies and to bolster domestic biomedical and accelerator capabilities.
China Loses a Pioneer of Accelerator Physics: Wei Baowen Dies at 91
Wei Baowen, an eminent Chinese nuclear and accelerator physicist and academician, died in Lanzhou on 17 January 2026 at age 91. As chief engineer of China’s first heavy‑ion accelerator project and former director of the Lanzhou Heavy Ion Accelerator National Laboratory and the Institute of Modern Physics, Wei played a central role in building China’s accelerator science infrastructure and institutions.