References
The key management of NucSaf GmbH has a record of accomplishment of over 45 years’ experience worldwide in the field of nuclear safety and radiation monitoring.
Selection of most significant projects
The early years, 1977 to 1990, Italian Projects
ENEL – Caorso NPP, Year 1980 - Design and supply of the World’s first microprocessor based automatic aerosol monitor. Six Automatic Alpha/Beta air contamination monitoring stations for the reactor containment. (On the left)ENEA - Centralized Radiation Monitoring System for the TRIGA reactor (Casaccia-Rome).
ENEA / TRE PI PROGETTI (ENEA) – Integrated Radiation Monitoring System, including Criticality Control, for ITREC (spent fuel reprocessing) plant of ENEA- CRE Trisaia.
ENEA / ELECTRON ITALIA (ENEA) – Radiation (gamma and neutrons) Monitoring System and Computer based personal Dosimetry system, for safety control in the FTU TOKAMAK plant of CRE Frascati. The Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) is a tokamak operating at Frascati, Italy. Building on the Frascati Tokamak experiment, FTU is a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak (Btor = 8 Tesla). It began operation in 1990.
SEPA / ENEL - Air Contamination Monitoring System for the CIRENE nuclear power plant. Computer based personal Dosimetry system.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE / CRESAM – ITALIAN NAVY. Design and implementation of the Radiation Monitoring and Control Network for the Islands of La Maddalena Archipelago.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH - Early Warning Monitoring Network for the whole territory of Italy; automatic stations for alpha/beta/gamma air contamination monitoring and real time gamma spectroscopy.
Worldwide Projects to present time
CHERNOBYL NPP / UKRAINE (EBRD, Nuclear Safety Account) – Design and Implementation of Radiation Monitoring System for Reactor Unit 3, including Reactor building Radiation Monitoring System (Stack and 12 gamma spectrometric water monitors), 4 environmental radiation monitoring stations (Aerosols, Iodine and Gamma dose rate), 10 Gamma dose rate monitoring stations in the exclusion zone.
RESTRICTED LOCATION – Design and Implementation of a Radiation Monitoring Network, made of five Gamma dose rate and Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Iodine Aerosols Monitoring Stations, Under Water Gamma Monitors, central data acquisition and management system.
WIPP / General Atomics / DOE - USA – Design and Implementation of Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in NM, including gamma/neutrons dose rate monitoring stations, underground Alpha/Beta Aerosols Monitors, RADNET data acquisition and management software.
ROVNO NPP / Ukraine (TACIS) – Design and Implementation of Radiation Monitoring System, including 6 Stack Monitoring Systems (Aerosols, Iodine and Gamma dose rate), 2 Gamma spectrometric water monitors, 2 environmental radiation monitoring stations (Aerosols, Iodine and Gamma dose rate).
KOZLODUY NPP / Bulgaria (EBRD) – Automatic Free Release Measurement System, for the decommissioning of Unit 1.
ROMANIA / PHARE Project – Design and Implementation of a new Early Warning Radiation Monitoring Network, including 38 gamma dose rate monitoring stations, 5 under water gamma spectrometric monitoring stations and central data management system.
SMOLENSK NPP / Russian Federation (TACIS) – Nuclear Waste Characterization Spectrometric Systems and Off-gas automatic Monitoring System.
IRAQ / Ministry of Environment – Design and Implementation of a new National Early Warning Radiation Monitoring Network, first and second stages, including four automatic aerosols and Iodine monitoring station, with real time on-line Alpha, Beta and Gamma spectrometry, based on HPGe detector with electrical cooling, and central data management system, (Network Control Centre).
IRAQ / Ministry of Science and Technology / RWTS Twaitha – Design and Implementation of Radiation Monitoring System for the Radioactive Waste Treatment Station at Twaitha, Baghdad, including 13 Area Gamma dose rate monitors, two aerosols monitors, one transportable aerosol monitor and a Network Control Centre.
RESTRICTED LOCATION – Design and Implementation of a State of the Art Radiation Monitoring Network; made of 5 fixed stations including each: Gamma dose rate, Alpha/Beta/Gamma/ Aerosols and Iodine Monitors, Under Water Gamma Spectrometric Monitors, and central data acquisition and management system with addition of modelling for forecast of contaminants spreading in case of accidents.
NEA (National Environment Agency) Singapore – RMS System for the entire territory, made of 45 monitoring stations including: 10 x Alpha/Beta/Gamma aerosols monitoring units, 5 x Iodine monitoring units with gamma spectrometry, 5 transportable aerosols monitors, 44 x Gamma Dose rate monitoring units and 8 x Underwater gamma spectrometric monitoring units. Control centre equipped with five servers and four dedicated workstations, for operation and data management. Integrated modelling software for forecast of contaminants spreading in case of accidents.
Special assignments for the European Commission
RUSSIAN FEDERATION / OB-IRTYSH REGION (SIBERIA) - TACIS Assessment study of the Russian infrastructure and procedures for environmental radiation protection in the Ob-Irtysh rivers Basin and Design of an automatic Monitoring and Warning System, including 9 complex water spectrometric monitoring stations and central data management system, for monitoring of rivers contamination. Drafting of relevant tender documents, for the procurement of mentioned monitoring network within the frame of a TACIS project.
MALTA – Malta Environment and Planning Agency MEPA - Assessment study of the Maltese infrastructure and procedures for environmental radiation protection and design of a suitable Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network to conform to the European Union requirements in terms of environmental nuclear safety and international data exchange. Drafting of relevant tender documents, for the procurement of mentioned monitoring network within the frame of a co-financed (EU-Malta) project.