BANDRRI, National Database at CIEMAT (SPAIN)

1. BANDRRI, National Database at CIEMAT (SPAIN) Mónica Galán IONISING RADIATION METROLOGY LABORATORY (LMRI)

4. Represent Spain in the field of metrology of ionising radiation at international organizations such as the Comité International des Poids et Mésures (CIPM), Comité Consultatif pour les Rayonnements Ionisants (CCRI), the Bureau International des Poids et Mésures (BIPM), the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM), the European Collaboration of National Metrology Institutes (EUROMET) and others. Assure international traceability of national standards for ionising radiation by complying with the requirements of the “Mutual Recognition Arrangement of the National Institutes of Metrology” (MRA), promoted by the Comité International des Poids et Mésures since 1999, establishing a System of Quality ISO 17025 and participating in CIPM/BIPM Key Intercomparisons, in the supplementary EUROMET intercomparisons and in the BIPM “Système International de Référence” (SIR).

5. To meet its objectives, the LMRI must ensure international traceability, and at the same time, coherence of ionising radiation measurements in the country in all sectors, industry, health and research, and in applications as diverse as industrial calibration and testing, occupational radioprotection, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, radionuclide experimentation and environmental radiological surveillance. For this reason, as the National Standards Laboratory for ionising radiation, and in line with similar metrological institutions in other countries around us, the LMRI must perform the following R&D activities: • Set New Standards and Measurement Techniques • Maintenance and Traceability • Diffusion of Units

6. IR-13: Radionuclide Metrology Laboratories, where measurement techniques appropriate for metrological characterisation of radioactive decay and emission processes are developed an allow to define the National Standards for Radionuclide Activity of α, β or γ emitters. IR-14: Dosimetry Standards Laboratories, where measurement techniques suitable for metrological characterisation of the interaction between emitted radiation and matter in terms of the energy deposited are available and define the National Standards for Exposure, Kerma and Absorbed-dose to be defined, for γ (60Co, 137Cs), X (ISO 4037 qualities from 10 to 300 kV) and β (147Pm, 204Tl, 90Sr/90Y) radiations.

7. Unit diffusion: To cover the needs of its final users, the LMRI disseminates the standards and their units by providing services of: • Calibration of equipment: • α, β , γ and X-ray radioprotection and contamination survey meters.- Environmental, radiotherapy, and nuclear power plant reference chambers.- Quality control equipment for x-rays and radiation level alarms. • Nuclear reference data by: • Enlarging the National Ionising Radiation Database (BANDRRI), established in collaboration by the LMRI-Nuclear data analysis and evaluation • Dissemination of recommended atomic and nuclear data of interest for ionizing radiations applications in environmental, medical and technological fields • Participation in the International Decay Data Evaluation Project (IDDEP)