NuTeC News
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We would like to inform you about the new TETRA project "Easy NORM" for measuring radioactivity originating from naturally occuring radioactive materials (NORM) in building materials. The project will be submitted to the IWT Vlaanderen by the Nuclear Technological Center NuTeC.
"The building sector faces an enormous challenge in the future. Building materials will be included in the new European guidelines for radiation protection. This results in the necessity of determining the natural radioactivity in building materials. Based on these measurements the building materials will be classified and may or may not become restricted in use. Nutec will optimise the expertise gained in the current B-NORM project to develop a user friendly and cost-effective method to measure natural radioactivity. We will focus on the most important categories in the belgian buidling sector: concrete and brick."
As part of this project, we are still looking for partners (building material labs, suppliers and producers). Would you like to participate or interested? Contact NuTec (Mark Stals,
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or +32 (0)11 370 794)
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NuTeC information
Since 1999, the nuclear technological centre NuTeC is the centre for nuclear research and services in Limburg. Our research center collaborates with the unique Flemisch training program of engineering in the nuclear sciences of the XIOS University College. Our cenrer is active in different fields, especially the non-nuclear field:
- Detection and prevention of radiological contaminations in e.g. waste transport, scrap, steel industry, medical waste, ...
- Environmental and energetic research in calorometric values of bio fuels (pdh research)
- Electron Magnetic Resonance dosimetry in clinical beams (phd research and services)
In 2009 NuTeC started a national audit of all Belgian radiotherapy centers in Belgium, in close cooperation with the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC). (BELdART Project). Since 2011 the successor of BELdART, ALdART is being prepared. Click here for more information.
2009 was also the start of the NuTeC-NORM (naturally occuring radioactive materials) to develop a software tool to map NORM in the non-nuclear sector. Since 2011, the NuTeC-NORM project continued in two new projects: Eur-NORM amd N-NORM. |
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