Laboratories new to the ICRM

Consultative committee on ionizing radiation: Impact on radionuclide metrology

“…Recognizing that a growing number of these laboratories were taking on increasing roles in providing measurements to support users in achieving measurement-quality assurance, the 2011 meeting of the ICRM in Tsukuba, Japan, presented the work of several laboratories new to the ICRM. The National Technical University of Athens, Greece (NTUA), the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania (CPST), the Center for Technology of Radiation Safety and Metrology National Nuclear Energy Agency, Indonesia (PTKMER-BATAN), the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA), and the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK-SANAEM) were presented, and the critical activities they provide in radioactivity measurement standards to address the needs of the communities in their respective countries were summarized; both the NRPA and the TAEK-SANEM are the Designated Institutes (DI) for Ionizing Radiation in their respective countries (Karam, et al, 2012). More recently (since 2011), in the Sistema Interamericano de Metrologia (SIM), the Regional Metrology Organization for the Americas, the need for additional national laboratories for the measurement of ionizing radiation has been recognized as key in the establishment of an international measurement system in which all users can have confidence (SIM, 2015).…”