Speaker
Description
The Joint Research Centre performs research and provides scientific advice to the European Commission as stipulated in the Euratom treaty. The radionuclide team at JRC-Geel (in the town Geel in Belgium) is involved in establishing international equivalence of radioactivity measurements and realising the unit Bq. To accomplish this work, there is a wide range of specially designed instruments. Some instruments are located in the 225 m deep underground laboratory HADES, which is also a laboratory open for users from the EU.
The presentation will show recent developments in HADES and describe projects linked to (i) development of radioactive reference materials, (ii) nuclear science applications of environmental radioactivity and (iii) support to fundamental physics experiments for neutrinoless double beta decay (GERDA and LEGEND)
