Ukrainian Project
Mobile Laboratory for the Ukraine The National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory (NAREL)
and the Radiation
and Indoor Environments
National Laboratory
(RIENL) designed
and managed the construction
of a mobile laboratory
for the Ministry
of Environmental
Protection and Nuclear
Safety (MEPNS) of
the Republic of Ukraine.
The project was a
cooperative effort
among EPA's Office
of International
Activities and Office
of Radiation and
Indoor Air, the
United Nations Development
Programme, and the
Agency for International
Development with
assistance from the
United
Nations Office for
Project Services The mobile lab is housed in an "eighteen wheeler" trailer and tractor rig built to European standards. Radioanalysis equipment in the lab includes gamma and alpha spectrometers, alpha and beta counters, and a liquid scintillation counter. A spectrophotometer, water analyzer, atomic absorption spectrometer, and pH meters provide capability for chemical analyses. Two training sessions were conducted for the Ukrainian officials. The first session, in July 1996 at Tuskegee University, was for senior environmental managers and scientists from the Ukraine to develop plans for a demonstration project and a two-year use plan for the laboratory. At the second session, at NAREL in November 1996, lab operators were trained to use the mobile instruments and equipment. The mobile laboratory has been delivered to Kiev. |
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