Radionuclides Analyses

Determining the volume activity of radioactive elements (including 3H and 14C) encountered in exhalation and radioactive concentrates generated by nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities.

• Determining tritium, ¹⁴C, plutonium, americium and curium, ⁸⁹Sr, ⁹⁰Sr, ⁹⁹Tc, ¹²⁹I, ⁹⁴Nb, ^93mNb, ⁵⁹Ni, ⁶³Ni in:
  • exhaled substances (filters, absorbers);
  • concentrates (solutions before immobilization);
  • ground water (survey boreholes).

Determining transuranium elements and heavy & toxic elements in water, soil and sediments.

• Determining transuranium elements (plutonium, americium and curium) and heavy & toxic elements (Cd, Hg, Cr, As, Tl and others) in:
  • water;
  • soil;
  • sediments.

• Determining ²¹⁰Pb, ²¹⁰Po, ²²⁸Th, ²³⁰Th, ²³¹Pa, ²³⁴Pa a ²²⁶Ra :
  • in soil;
  • in water;
  • in sediments;
  • at sites affected by uranium mining.
  • at sites of reworking plants;
  • inside former mines and mine dumps;
• Inspecting watercourses for impurities.

Performing destructive analyses of disclosed nuclear materials with the intention of identifyingtheir origins - to determine their age, composition and accompanying substances present in microscopic quantities.

Destructive analyses of nuclear fuels based on uranium and plutonium, or samples of nuclear materials aimed to determine:

• the age (date of production) of a material according to:
  • the activity of the ²³⁴U, ²³⁶Ra, and ²³⁰Th radionuclides for materials based on uranium;
  • the activity of the ²⁴¹Pu and ²⁴¹Am radionuclides for materials based on plutonium;
• accompanying substances present in microscopic quantities;
• isotopic composition.

Production of Compounds and other services

 Monitoring processes of thermal behavior in samples using diffusion structural analysis methods.

• Monitoring surface changes in materials being heated from 20 °C to 1,200 °C using the method of diffusion structural analysis (emanation thermic analysis).
• Monitored can be the surfaces of powder materials, glass, ceramic and layers of polymerous materials.

Preparing organic substances tagged with ¹⁴C and ³H

• Preparing organic substances tagged with ¹⁴C and  ³H, particularly substances of the amino-acid type with all the carbons tagged [U-¹⁴C], suitable for the purposes of biological research.
• If so agreed with the customer, we are also ready to prepare tagged compounds outside the range of standard tagged substances.

Manufacture of beta-emitters (⁹⁰Y, ¹⁸⁸Re, ¹⁸⁶Re) by irradiation in the LVR-15 reactor.

• Irradiating in vertical channels of the LVR-15 reactor.
• Preparing the beta emitters of ⁹⁰Y, ¹⁸⁸Re, ¹⁸⁶Re, ¹⁶⁶Ho and ¹⁷⁷Lu in the form of powder targets or solutions.