Safeguards Systems

The very nature and importance of safeguards necessitates experience, reliability, reproducibility, worldwide support and an understanding of the unique difficulties faced by inspectors and their needs. Safeguards is an application that requires a company like CANBERRA that has experience in measurements of fissionable material and both the experience and the resources to support the various inspectorates for many years to come. CANBERRA's commitment to safeguards goes far beyond merely building and supplying equipment. We recognize that the workplace of these inspectors gives new meaning to "harsh environments.” Equipment must be accurate and reliable, must operate in difficult environmental conditions and must allow an inspector to quickly take a measurement while minimizing time and operational input at the facility. Safeguards equipment must carry the type of long term commitment to support and repairability that CANBERRA has demonstrated over its forty year history.

Our commitment to safeguards solutions begins with close and constant collaboration with international safeguards agencies and with the laboratories that pioneer new measurement techniques. Long-standing relationships with the many international research agencies and safeguards organizations has resulted in the rapid commercial development of leading edge technologies that originate from the research at those facilities. Our commitment to safeguards has been recognized through our long-standing relationship with European Safeguards and Research Development Association (ESARDA), and our sustaining membership in the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) and its various international chapters. We work directly with the major safeguards related agencies and laboratories such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Euratom, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Our staff have backgrounds ranging from inspector support to nuclear safeguards research. We quickly assimilate newly developed technologies and offer refinements that ultimately contribute to the successful commercialization of industrial systems.

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