[2000-actualidad]

COMIBEAT project was devoted, from its beginning in 2000, to analyse the retention mechanisms of hazardous contaminants, mainly radioactive isotopes and heavy elements, in materials used as barriers in nuclear waste repositories.

We proposed the determination of quantitative retention parameters for contaminants by the application of two nuclear ion beam (IBA) techniques, Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) and micro-Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE), available at the AN2000 accelerator of LNL (INFN-LNL, Padova, Italy).

https://www.lnl.infn.it/index.php/en/accelerators-3/an-2000

This project was always financed within different European Transnational Access Programmes, and, more recently, under ENSAR 2 (European Nuclear Science and Applications Research – 2).