Your Partner for Radioactive Material Examinations
The nuclear facility Hotlab (HL) of PSI is operated by the Department Hot Laboratory (AHL), which is assigned to the Nuclear Energy and Safety Division (NES) as an independent organizational unit.
The PSI Hotlab is the only Swiss laboratory authorised by the Swiss safety authorities to handle large quantities of radioactive materials including commercial as well as experimental nuclear fuel.
Latest News from internal Hotlab
Highlight - Transfer of the KC-T12/4
During the type testing for the AGT11, PB250 compacted waste containers were conditioned. In addition, dose rate measurements of the waste packages, gamma scanning, documentation, sealing in contamination-free ZB264 overpacks, loading of the containers into a KC-T12, and transfer of the KC-T12 to the BZL were carried out.
Project BALDER at the RRFM-2025
At this year’s European Research Reactor Conference (RRFM-2025) in Aix-en-Provence, the BALDER project presentation drew strong international interest.
Successful preparation for microstructure representation in Zircaloy-4 using light microscopy
Successful preparation for microstructure representation in Zircaloy-4 using light microscopy