Hotcell Services

Nuclear Operations and Facilities is home to three independent hot cell facilities located on campus, which can be used for various nuclear, materials, environmental, and health applications.

There are 3 distinct hotcell facilities at Nuclear Operations and Facilities:

  1. Centre for Advanced Nuclear Systems
    • A suite of custom designed, fabricated and installed hot cells with 5 separate workstations for receiving, machining and waste handling, sample preparation, mechanical testing and optical microscopy examination of irradiated material samples.
  2. Large Application Industrial Hotcell
    • Contains the 10kCi Cobalt-60 source for applications, ranging from sterilization to nuclear dating to instrument calibration.
  3.  Pharmaceutical Grade Hotcell
    • Located in the HLLF, access to a pharmaceutical grade hot cell is available for small-scale radioactive work.