Provision of Gamma Detector and Associated Parts for Cefas Laboratories

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Cefas awarded a contract to Mirion Technologies (Canberra UK) Ltd for the provision of a gamma detector and associated equipment to support continued capacity building and innovation of laboratories across multiple programmes and research.

The equipment is vital for maintaining robust delivery of high-quality analytical results to the Food Standards Agency, optimising support for increasing demand related to Blue Carbon research, and providing spare capacity to fulfil emergency radiological/nuclear incident response obligations for government and other organisations.

The contract, valued at AUD 85,892, includes a High purity Germanium (HpGe) gamma detector covering 30 keV to 2000 keV with minimum 50% relative efficiency and low-background carbon fiber endcap, a low noise configuration for measuring low activity samples including Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) such as Pb-210 and Ra-226 with zero background for [email protected] keV, mounting compatible with a supplied condensing liquid nitrogen cooling system and ultra-low background lead shield, and system compatibility with existing Ortec GammaVision analytical software and Ortec DSPEC analysers.