'IAEA - Meeting'

Nuclear Energy
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Technical Meeting on Quality Assurance for Nuclear Spectrometry Techniques

Start date: 12 Oct 2009

End date: 16 Oct 2009

Place: Vienna, Austria

Description: Chemical measurements are increasingly applied as the basis of important decisions which are required for setting up national and international regulations in such fields as trade, law, medicine, environmental pollution monitoring etc. The commercial value of traded products depends critically on the measurements which determine the degree of quality. This requires trust in the measurements on the international level that can be achieved through introduction of uniform criteria. An area where regulation is mandatory is environmental pollution monitoring. Release of chemical compounds into the soil, the water and the air, and consequently into the human body, requires setting limits and verification of compliance with these limits through chemical measurements. Again, since pollution is often a transboundary issue (chemical pathways in the environment cross the man-made borders), decisions related to environmental pollution must be acceptable internationally. Therefore, the reliability of chemical measurements is of highest importance, and many analytical laboratories including those which apply nuclear spectrometry techniques recognised an essential role of quality.

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