The CROWN (Characterization of Radioactive Wastes and Nuclear Materials) Laboratory was created within the Radiation Protection, Environment Protection and Civil Protection Laboratory to provide services in the field of radiological characterization of materials from licensed nuclear practices for clearance or classification as radioactive waste.

       The funding for development of the laboratory infrastructure and accreditation of measurement methods was covered from the national budget and SCN’s Pitesti own resources through an excellence research project carried on between November 2005 and February 2007, entitled “Testing laboratory for radiological characterization of materials from nuclear practices for clearance or treatment and conditioning as radioactive waste”. (module 4, type P-CONFORM, Contract 90/07.09.2005)