The UAE’s SSDL will be operational in 2016. In preparation for this event, UAE stakeholders are conducting preparatory work to ensure that operation runs smoothly.
From 28 September to 27 October, UAE nuclear operator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), designated a health physicist to complete a month-long fellowship visit to the Technology and Innovation Institute in Kajang, Malaysia, which serves as a functioning SSDL.Ms. Samia Abdul Aziz Mohammad will be joining the team to operate the UAE’s SSDL in 2016.
The participation of Samia in the fellowship programme contributes significantly to the preparation the UAE SSDL, which will be the national reference laboratory for Radiation Measurement.
During the programme, Samia observed and learned from the best practices of the host SSDL, not only in Calibration Techniques but also in Radiation Safety, Quality Management and many other relevant fields, which she is looking forward to implement at the upcoming UAE SSDL.
These activities come under the framework of the national technical cooperation project on ‘Establishment of the Secondary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory (SSDL),’ through which the UAE advances its capacity on national dosimetry standards based on traceability to primary radiation standards and disseminates those standards through calibration services.
