6. Certified Reference Material for Nuclear Forensics Available to Purchase

The NRC is the National Metrological Institute (NMI) for Canada and is one of the NMIs in an international family whose purpose is to establish, maintain, improve and disseminate standards. One component of the dissemination of standards is the production of Certified Reference Material (CRM) whose fundamental role is primarily the establishment of traceability of a measured value to a primary unit of measurement as defined by the International System of Units (SI). The NMIs engage each other in order to validate CRMs through inter-laboratory comparisons thereby ensuring confidence in the reliability of measurement results. Equally important to the certified values in a given CRM is the uncertainty attributed to those values, which are of the highest metrological value and are ideally and typically lower than the measurement capability of the end users.