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CNL’s Nuclear Instrumentation Development Laboratory (NIDL) located at the Chalk River
Laboratories (CRL) is used for the development of advanced nuclear instrumentation and
detector systems. The NIDL is equipped with sensor test equipment, analogue and digital
signal processing electronics, neutron, alpha, beta- and gamma-ray detectors, cosmic ray
muon detectors, and reactor antineutrino detectors. The NIDL has ready access to a variety of
radiation sources and radiation environments, in a wide range of radiation types and intensities
making it a unique laboratory. It also has prompt access to nuclear and radioactive materials,
as well as two research reactors and shielded facilities for further experimentation, all located
within CRL.
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The Nuclear Instrumentation Development Laboratory is able to model, create and
test components on site at CRL, which makes this facility particularly useful for the
conceptualization testing of nuclear instrumentation. The NIDL possesses solid and liquid
scintillators, ion-chambers, fission chambers, Geiger-Mueller tubes, solid-state detectors and
fibre-optics, which can all be used for nuclear instrumentation development.
The NIDL staff are members of the Applied Physics Branch at CRL. They have expertise and
experience in all aspects of experimental nuclear science, including nuclear, particle, and
reactor physics, electrical, mechanical and nuclear engineering.
There are a wide range of CNL facilities that enhance the NIDLs’ capabilities for nuclear
instrumentation system development and testing, such as the ZED-2 reactor where the
NIDL tests components. The Nuclear Instrumentation Development Laboratory would like
to continue to develop partnerships with universities looking to expand on cutting edge
technologies and would be interested in collaborations to bring technologies to market.
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