中国辐射防护研究院（简称“中辐院”）隶属于中国核工业集团公司，成立于1962年，位于环境秀美的太原市国家高新技术开发园区，是我国唯一专门从事辐射防护研究与应用的综合科研机构，主要从事辐射防护、核应急与核安全、放射医学与环境医学、核环境科学、放射性三废治理与核设施退役、辐照技术、环保技术、核电子信息技术、生物材料、职业病诊断与救治技术等领域的研究、应用及生产经营，并为国家职能部门提供辐射防护与核安全管理技术支持。是国防科工局重点保军单位，通过了武器装备质量管理体系认证，环保部技术支持单位，科技部国家级技术转移示范机构，中核集团安全管理的依托单位。
       全院占地面积720亩(其中野外实验基地34亩)，建筑面积23.4万平方米，现有职工1100余人，其中中科院院士1人，高级研究人员280余人。下设6个研究所，3个科技产业公司，1个生物材料研发中心以及科研服务、后勤服务和管理等部门。中国核工业集团公司“辐射防护技术重点实验室”、“核环境模拟与评价技术重点实验室”、“高放废物地质处置评价技术重点实验室”、“核设施退役与放废处理工程技术中心”和环保部“国家环境保护环境与健康重点实验室”设在我院。此外，还承担中核集团公司辐射防护仪表检测中心、个人剂量管理与服务中心、环境监测与评价中心、辐射防护与核安全培训中心、辐射事故应急技术支援中心、职业病登记与服务中心的管理服务工作。
       中辐院设有辐射防护及环境保护、环境科学、放射医学、劳动卫生和环境卫生学硕士学位授予点。先后与国际原子能机构(IAEA)、 国际放射防护委员会(ICRP)、联合国原子辐射影响科学委员会(UNSCEAR)、世界卫生组织(WHO)以及美国、日本、法国等40多个国际组织、国家(地区)建立了科技合作与交流关系。
   迄今为止，中辐院已取得科技成果6270项，获得国家特等奖3项和省部级以上科技进步奖520余项，申请和批准专利150项，为核工业、两弹一艇和国家航天事业的发展做出了不可磨灭的贡献。
        新的时期，中辐院秉持“敬业、奉献、求实、创新”的文化精神和“开放、包容、合作、共赢”的发展理念，深入贯彻“提升科研、拓展服务、优化产业、精化管理”的发展方针，紧紧围绕核军工、核电、核燃料循环、核技术应用等领域开展科学技术研究和应用，扬鞭奋蹄，正在向“2020年建成国际先进，与中国核大国地位相适应的一流辐射防护技术研究和开发基地”宏伟目标迈进！

         China Institute for Radiation Protection (CIRP), subordinate to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), is founded in 1962 and located in Taiyuan, with a land area of about 480 000 square meters and building area of 234 000 square meters and neighbored on the west by Taiyuan National High-tech Park beautified with the pleasant environment. The CIRP, serving as comprehensive research establishment solely dedicated to radiation protection in China, has the CNNC-mandated nuclear safety management capability and provides technical support to research programs of the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA), Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and to the technical transfer demonstration project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. 
       The CIRP has a total of 1100 staff, including one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and more than 280 senior professionals, and encompasses six research entities, one biological material research and development center, three science and technology industry companies and other related functional and managerial branches. Also incluced are CNNC’s Key Radiation Protection Technical Laboratory, Nuclear Environment Simulation and Assessment Technology Key Laboratory, Key Laboratory for Deep Geological Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste,  Nuclear Facility Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Treatment Center (MEP), State  Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environment and Health (Taiyuan). Additionally, the CIPP is mandated by the CNNC to undertake the management of six research and technology service centers, such as Radiation Instrument Calibration Center, Personal Dose Management and Service Center, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Center, Training Center on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Emergency Technical Support Center and Occupational Disease Registration and Service Center.  
         The CIRP is mainly engaged in the research, development and application in aspects of radiation protection, nuclear emergency and safety, radiological medicine and environmental medicine, nuclear environmental science, radioactive waste management and nuclear facility decommissioning, irradiation technology, environmental protection technology, nuclear electronic information technology, biological material technology, diagnosis and treatment of occupational disease and also provides technical support to national functional departments with respect to radiation protection and nuclear safety. The CIRP offers Master’s degree programs in the fields of radiation protection and environmental protection, environmental science, radiological medicine, labor health and environmental hygiene. The technical cooperation and exchange are established with a number of international organizations such as IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR and WHO as well as more than 40 countries including United States, Japan and France etc.
         Up to now, the CIRP has achieved more than 6270 accomplishments, including three national special awards, more than 520 provincial- and ministerial-level scientific progress awards, with more than 152 patents obtained. To a varying extent, prominent contributions have been made to China’s expansion of the nuclear industry.
       At present, the cultural spirit of “trust, dedication, reality and innovation” and the conceptual ideology of “openness, inclusiveness,  and win-win cooperation” are upheld among the CIRP staff. The development policy of raising research level, broadening service scope, optimizing industry structure and refining management capability is being abided by to carry out the research and development activities of science and technology in the fields of nuclear power, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear technology application. Efforts are focused on building, by 2020, the research and development base in respect to radiation protection technology, which is comparable with China’s large-sized civil nuclear industry.