Key competences

IRMM has six core areas of competence:
  • reference materials
  • food analysis
  • bioanalysis
  • chemical reference measurements
  • radionuclide metrology
  • neutron physics
IRMM’s expertise covers especially
  • production of chemical, biological, clinical, industrial, environmental, isotopic and nuclear certified reference materials, proficiency testing materials and primary radioactivity standards
  • storage, stability/homogeneity control and distribution of certified reference materials
  • development and validation of analytical methods for food and feed analysis
  • primary isotopic measurements
  • metrology in chemistry
  • radionuclide metrology and ultra-low activity gamma spectrometry
  • interlaboratory comparisons for food, chemical and nuclear laboratories, and international measurement evaluation programmes
  • high resolution neutron reference measurements in support to reactor safety and waste transmutation modelling
  • studies of neutron-material interactions
  • establishment of neutron data standards
  • measurements and evaluation of radioactive decay data





Last Update 22/10/2008