About us
Creation and Team
The Environmental Radioactivity Laboratory of the University of A Coruña (LRA-UDC) was created in 1997 after the signing of a collaboration agreement with the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), by which it became part of the Radiological Surveillance Network (REM, dense network) of the Radiological Surveillance Network (Revira), being the only one in the entire autonomous community of Galicia for this purpose and with these characteristics.
It has one collaborator, two analysts and one technician, who are shown in the following image, respectively.
From left to right: José Luis Calvo Rolle, Alberto Otero Pazos, Soñia Casal Romero, Alfonso Nicolás Calleja García
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JOSÉ LUIS CALVO ROLLE
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ALBERTO OTERO PAZOS
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SONIA CASAL ROMERO
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ALFONSO CALLEJA GARCÍA
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Main Equipment
- 2 Canberra XTRA GX2520 Gamma Spectrometers.
- Canberra Alpha Analyst PIPS A450-18AM Alpha Spectrometry System.
- Berthold LB770 Continuous Flow Proportional Alpha/Beta Gas Counter.
- Exploranium GR135 Gamma Radiation Monitor.
- Radosys Radometer 2000 and RB4 Bath for Radon Dosimeter Development.
- Alphaguard PQ 2000PRO Radon Monitor.
- Sun Nuclear Sentinel 1030 Radon Monitor.
- SunRADON 1028 XP Radon Monitor.
- 6 Radoneye RD200 Radon Monitors.
- Perkin Elmer Aanalyst 300 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer.
- TLD Cube Dosimetry System.
Main clients
Since its inception, the LRA-UDC has carried out various types of work for public organizations, companies, universities, and private individuals. These range from the radiological characterization of environmental samples (air, water, milk, soil, and typical diets) for the CSN (Nuclear Safety Council) since 1997, to the radiological characterization of waste from gas tanker tanks for Navantia since 2004, and the radiological characterization of red mud, alumina, and aluminum for Alcoa, among others.
Another line of work for the LRA-UDC focuses on radon gas measurement (continuous measurement and trace detectors). The LRA-UDC has been measuring radon gas in Navantia Ferrol-Fene buildings since 2012, in all buildings of the University of A Coruña since 2013, in Alcoa since 2015 and in all Telefónica buildings in the autonomous community of Galicia, as well as buildings in the Canary Islands, Ávila, Segovia and Collado Villalba, since 2016, among many others.
