[1][2] He was a professor and president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and served as president of the China Toxicology Society, deputy representative of China to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, and as a committee member of the International Commission on Radiological Protection.
[2] Outside of the AMMS, Wu served as President of the China Toxicology Society, China's deputy representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), and as a member of Committee 1 (Radiation Effects) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).
Wu, who was in charge of training medical personnel to prepare for a potential fallout, managed the emergency response after the accident to protect the health of the workers.
[5] In the 1980s, he oversaw a systematic study of the emergency medical response to the accident, which won the Special Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award.
[2][5] He was later involved in designing radiation protection measures at the Qinshan and Daya Bay nuclear power plants.