A Canadian Perspective in the Development of IAEA Equipment

In order to perform their verification duties, IAEA inspectors require robust, lightweight, user-friendly and proven instrumentation. The CSSP recognizes the need for these characteristics along with the requirement for immediate results while in the field. When the CSSP researches technologies for development, it attempts to ensure the science will meet these and other beneficial traits while ensuring it resolves an IAEA operational issue. Three successful technologies pursued by the CSSP have been in ultra-violet light analysis, data acquisition and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy sciences iwth the development of the Digital Cerenkov Viewing Device (DCVD), the Autonomous Data acquisition Module 2 (ADM@) and the Hand-Held LIBS System (HHLS). In designing these devices, the CSSP attempts to include resources that exceed the requirements of a basic model. In the situation for the ADM2, the device has the ability to expand beyond the present replacement need. The other two instruments have different traits which exceed the operational requirement. This paper reports on these characteristics for these three instruments which go beyond basic functionality.