STAR Equipment & facilities

Equipment & facilities at STAR institutes

For more information please contact the instittute identified for each facility below.

InstituteFacilities
Belgium/ SCK•CEN Facility for anthropogammametry
Belgium/ SCK•CEN Facility for low radioactivity measurements (alpha, beta, gamma) and neutron activation analyses
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for chemical and radiochemical analyses
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for personal and environmental dosimetry
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for internal radiation experiments on organisms
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for external radiation experiments on organisms
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for studying radionuclides availability, transfer and migration
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for plant culture
Belgium/ SCK•CENFacility for effect studies and molecular platform
Germany/BFSFacility for calibration of radon-222 and short-lived progenies’ measuring devices
Germany/BFSFacility for gamma dose rate probe inter-calibration (INTERCAL)
Germany/BFSFacility for whole body counting
Germany/BFSFacility for in-situ measurements (mobile laboratory)
Germany/BFSFacility for automated ambient dose rate measurements
Germany/BFS

Facility for air sampling
A: Immission

B: Emissions
France/IRSNMeasurements of natural or artificial radioactive elements in environmental samples 
France/IRSNFacility for experimental research ECORITME (Ecotoxicology of Ionizing Radiations and Trace Metals)
France/IRSNFacility for the use of radioactive tracers in marine, estuarine, atmospheric and coastal radioecology research
France/IRSN

Mobile laboratory with in situ gamma spectrometry and alpha analysis, for in situ transfer studies

France/IRSN

Field workshop area north of the reprocessing plant of La Hague for in situ transfer experiments in grassland

Sweden/SUExternal radiation sources
Sweden/SU

Scintillation counters

Sweden/SU

Aquaria facilites

Sweden/SU

Nutrient analyses

UK/
UK CEH
Sample preparation, Gamma analysis
UK/
UK CEH
Metals , Nutrients, Organics
UK/
UK CEH
Stable Isotopes 
UK/
UK CEH
Gene sequencing
Finland/STUKCalibration, testing and irradiation services of dosimeters
Finland/STUK

Gammaspectrometric facilities

Finland/STUKTritium, total alpha
Finland/STUKStrontium, transuranics
Finland/STUKUranium, Pb and Po
Finland/STUKWhole body measurement facilities
Spain/CIEMATChemical characterization
Spain/CIEMATDosimetry of ionising radiations
Spain/CIEMATEnvironmental Radioactivity Measurements
Spain/CIEMATIn situ measurements
Spain/CIEMATSupercomputation
Norway/
NMBU/CERAD
Low dose Co-60 source facility
Norway/
NMBU/CERAD
Facility for low radioactivity measurements (alpha, beta, gamma) and neutron activation analyses (environmental samples)
Norway/
NMBU/CERAD
Facility for chemical and radiochemical analyses (environmental samples)
Norway/
NMBU/CERAD
Facility for temperature controlled aquatic experiments
Norway/
NMBU/CERAD
Radioactive particle characterization analysis
Norway/DSAFacility for low radioactivity measurements (alpha, beta, gamma)
Norway/DSAFacility for radiochemical analyses (environmental samples)
Norway/DSARadon calibration and track-edge laboratory
Norway/DSAWhole body counting facility (stationary and mobile)