Facilities

• To fulfil its various tasks, the Institute for Transuranium Elements is provided with a large number of equipment und unique facilities.
  The equipment for working with highly radioactive materials includes:
  Devices for basic materials science investigations, destructive and non-destructive analyses, materials studies up to 8000 K and 60 GP
• Instruments for photo-electron spectroscopy, crystallographic investigations, solid-state studies (X-ray diffraction, electrical resistance and optical properties) on highly radioactive samples, Mössbauer spectroscopy at normal and elevated pressures
• High-resolution electron microscopes, shielded microprobes, advanced mass spectrometers, laboratory robots, … 

ITU’s special facilities consist of:

• 24 hot cells with capacities up to 1 Mio Curies and some 400 glove boxes in 30 alpha  laboratories.
   

Hot Cell at ITU

	ARTINA category 10-100 Clean Lab for safeguards and nuclear forensic applications
	Actinide User lab, open to universities, national authorities, research organisations, industry, for highly specialised studies
	Minor Actinide Lab for preparing irradiation targets containing amounts of actinides for transmutation experiments.
	Design and operation of two "On-Site-Laboratories" at COGEMA – La Hague and BNFL – Sellafield, under contract with the European Safeguards Office in Luxembourg

List of all relevant facilities:

1. Alpha and Beta Spectroscopy (Wipe testing) - Nuclear Safety & Security
2. Alpha Spectrometry - Nuclear Chemistry
3. Alpha-dopted UO2 – Materials Research
4. Characterisation Equipment - Nuclear Fuels
5. Climatisation - Nuclear Safety
6. Combined Product Uranium Concentration and Enrichment Assay (COMPUCEA) - Nuclear Chemistry
7. Electron microscopes – Materials Research
8. Fuel Fabrication Equipment - Nuclear Fuels
9. Gamma Spectrometry - Nuclear Chemistry
10. Gamma spectroscopy and Neutron Coincidence Counting – Nuclear Safety
11. Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) - Nuclear Chemistry
12. High Level Neutron Coincidence Counter (HLNC) - Nuclear Chemistry
13. High Resolution Gamma Spectrometry (HRGS) - Nuclear Chemistry
14. Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) - Nuclear Chemistry
15. Ion Chromatography Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS) - Nuclear Chemistry
16. K-edge Densitometry (KED) - Nuclear Chemistry
17. laser-flash Multi-Property Measurement Machine – Materials Research
18. Liquid Scintillation Counting (LSC) - Nuclear Chemistry
19. Mass Spectrometry – Nuclear Chemistry
20. MOX and MX Laboratories - Nuclear Fuels
21. Neutron Coincidence Counting (NCC) - Nuclear Chemistry
22. Nuclear Fuels Production Processes- Nuclear Fuels
23. Pin Filling and Welding - Nuclear Fuels
24. Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy Dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX) - Nuclear Chemistry
25. Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) - Nuclear Chemistry
26. The Minor Actinide Laboratory -  Nuclear Fuels
27. Titration - Nuclear Chemistry
28. X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) -  Nuclear Chemistry