The radiochemistry lab was set up in 1978, oriented towards carrying out environmental radiological surveillance programmes at the first nuclear plants to be built in Spain. Within a short time it had positioned itself as a benchmark laboratory in this field, carrying out programmes at practically all the country's plants. Having participated in these programmes from the very beginning, we have gained valuable experience which, combined with DRACE GEOCISA's goals to specialise and constantly innovate, has enabled us to maintain our position over time, becoming increasingly involved in the relevant forums, such as our participation in the work groups set up by the Nuclear Security Council for the development of sampling and analysis procedures.
Today, our personnel has extensive experience of every stage of a surveillance programme:
- Design, carrying out censuses of the land.
- Execution in the field, sampling of all types, conservation, processing and transfer to the laboratory.
- Execution at the lab, receiving and accepting samples, conservation, treatment, radiochemical analysis and radiological measurement.
- Preparing reports, data management, analysis of results and generating reports in specific formats.
Our involvement in installations at diverse facilities and during different phases of their life cycles, pre-operational and operational programmes at nuclear plants, operational programme at the Cabril radioactive-waste storage facility, the uranium-mining surveillance programme, have positioned us as a specialist laboratory, with extensive knowledge of both artificial and natural radioactivity, fully prepared to take on any kind of radiological-surveillance programme at any kind of site.