Ethylene-propylene rubbers are able to be crosslinked (vulcanized) by high energy radiation. The radiation-induced crosslinking of ethylene-propylene copolymer or ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer depends upon the ethylene/propylene ratio, the molecular weight of the polymer, the unsaturating degree of terpolymer and kinds of tercomponents. The mechanical properties of the crosslinked rubber were affected mainly by the E/P ratio and the molecular weight, and improved by blending of low density polyethylene or ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer. Aging of the rubber, due to kinds and contents of tercomponents, was mostly determined by addition of antioxidants to the compound. We developed EP rubber compounds for wire insulation crosslinked by electron beam radiation and applied to the insulation cores of the ship's cables, in the place of the wire vulcanized conventionally by the pressurized steam in the continuous vulcanizer. The rubber compounds are consisted of ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer with high ethylene contents, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer and antioxidants. The high-ethylene polymers are supplied in the shape of pellets, and antioxidants were added to the compounds by means of dry blending of concentrates in which antioxidants are mixed into pellets of ethylene copolymer. The EP rubbers were covered on the copper wire by the extruder, used to plastic material, and irradiated with the electron beam from an accelerator. These insulated cores manufactured on radiation processing had the excellent properties, particularly aging and electrical properties. Further, they are more simply colored. Therefore, they will be considered to be used to other applications. This method of manufacturing of the rubber-insulated wires made it possible to reduce both the material costs by simple compounding and the operating costs by radiation-induced crosslinking, to compare with the conventional compounding and vulcanizing process, in which the materials are compounded with the openroll, the Banbury mixer or others and the wires coated with these materials are vulcanized with the steam pressured vessel, the continuous catenary vulcanizer or others.