RMLS Duties

• Routine tasks and continuous measurements
  Periodic reports to the state government
  More than 25.000 measurements of environmental samples and foodstuff since 1988
  Periodic calibration and control measurements

• Maintaining the permanent operational readiness
  Radioactivity measurements laboratory for alpha-, beta- and gamma emitter
  Aerosol measurement instrumentation

• Training and further education of staff
  Guest lectures
  Research projects with application of new methods

• Advisory capacity for the state government bodies
  Advisory service for the state government with regard to radiation protection
  Membership in the Austrian Standards Institute in radiation related national standardization committees

• Scientific projects
  Studies on transfer factors and transport of radionuclides
  In-situ gamma-spectrometry
  Radiometric measurement methods
  Biological effects of radioactive radiation
  Nuclear terrorism and radiological terrorism (dirty bomb)
  Database on international nuclear illicit trafficking (DSTO)

• EU – Projects
  EC-Project BRIDGE: Cross border measures after a large scale catastrophe
  EC-Project CAST: Comparative assessment of security-centred training curricula for first responders on disaster management in the EU
  CESER – Side effects of countermeasures after nuclear contamination

• Cooperation with national and international institutions, invitation of guest lecturers
  Research Centre Seibersdorf / Austria
  International Atomic Energy Agency / Austria
  AGES / Austria
  Central Research Institute for Physics / Hungary
  University Seville / Spain