Equipment at INE

Experimental facilities

• Laboratories and infrastructure for working with radioactive materials including alpha emitting nuclides (hot cells, alpha box technology, boxes with inert gas atmosphere, isotope hoods)
• CAD work stations for construction design and planning

HOVER - Project  ►►►

Analytical facilities  ►►►

• Analysis of radioactive materials: alpha- and gamma-spectrometry, liquid scintillation counting (including low level)
• Element-and isotope analysis, F-AES, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, SF-ICP-MS
• ICP-MS combined with capillary electrophoresis, Raman spectroscopy

Surface and solid state analyses   ►►►

• SEM
• FIB-SEM
• ESCA-spectroscopy
• AFM
• powder XRD
• μ-CT
• Raman spectroscopy
• WDXRF

Special analyses and speciation methods

• Time resolved laser-fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS), laser induced breakdown detection (LlBD), In-situ-colloid detection  ►►
• X-ray spectroscopy techniques (XAFS, XRD, HR-XANES/RIXS) at the INE-Beamline and ACT station at the KIT Light Source (for samples with activities up to 10⁶ times the exemption limit)  ►►
• NMR instrumentation for radioactive samples  ►►