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Infrastructure

Open to researchers outside the CTN


  Metrology Laboratory of Ionising Radiation

LMRI Map (jpg, 14,45 Kb).

Irradiation Room I Irradiation Room II Irradiation Room III Control Room
Irradiation Room I

X-ray irradiator (8,29 Kb).

X-ray Irradiator

X Radiation

  • Manufacturer and Model: YXLON MGC41; 2 Philips ampoules;
  • Maximum Power:  40 mA;
  • Calibrations: air Kerma and absorbed dose to water.

Gama Radiation

  • Manufacturer and Model: Shepherd 81 Calibrator
  • Sources:
    - 60Co (16 GBq; 148 GBq);
    - 137Cs (81 GBq; 814 GBq; 7,4 TBq);
    - 241Am (37 GBq).
  • Calibrations: radiological protection quantities.

 

Buchler Irradiator - gamma radiation (5,11 Kb).

Buchler Irradiator - gamma radiation

  • Manufacturer and Model: Buchler OB-34/1 BA
  • Sources:
    - 60Co (3,7 GBq; 25 GBq; 370 GBq);
    - 137Cs (7,4 MBq; 74 MBq; 740 MBq; 7,4 GBq).
  • Calibrations: radiological protection quantities.

 

Irradiation Room II

AECL Eldorado 6 Irrdiator - gamma radiation (11Kb).

AECL Eldorado 6 Irradiator - gamma radiation

Gama Radiation

  • Manufacturer and Model: AECL Eldorado 6
  • Source: 60Co (92,5 TBq).
  • Calibrations: air Kerma and absorbed dose to water.

 

Irradiation Room III

Buchler BSS Irradiator - beta radiation (5Kb).

Buchler BSS Irradiator - beta radiation

Beta Radiation

  • Manufacturer and Model: Buchler BSS-BA
  • Sources:
    - 90Sr+90Y (1,85 MBq; 74 MBq);
    - 147Pm (518 MBq);
    - 204Tl (18,5 GBq);
  • Calibrations: absorbed dose to tissue.

 

Beta and Alfa Radiations

Radioactive source used in the calibration of radioactive surface contamination monitors.

Radioactive source used in the
calibration of radioactive surface
contamination monitors
- beta and alpha radiation

  Set of standard sources for calibration of radioactive
  surface contamination monitors:

  • Sources:
    - Alpha Radiation (5,484 MeV);
    - Beta Radiation (0,049 MeV a 0,566 MeV).
  • Calibrations: activity per unit area (Bq/cm2).

 

Control Room

Control Room. (156 Kb).

Control Room

 

  Where the beginning and end of radiation exposures in the different
  rooms is controlled and where all the experimental data is collected.