International Development Grant
Prototype cooperating national facility for monitoring nuclear test explosions
Project Number: CA-3-P005261002
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $30,589.00
Start Date: April 19, 2018
End Date: March 31, 2024
Duration: 5.9 years
Project Description
The project funds Health Canada to provide technical consultants for the project to provide Kazakhstan with an atmospheric radionuclide monitoring station. The station will be established as a prototype cooperating national facility to monitor compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased ability to produce additional data to strengthen the ability to monitor compliance with the Treaty; (2) increased ability to produce refined information on local or regional background levels of radionuclides; and (3) a radionuclide data sharing agreement between Canada and Kazakhstan
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of June 2023 include: (1) observed the factory acceptance test for the radionuclide detection equipment in December 2018; and (2) conducted a site visit to National Nuclear Centre in Kazakhstan in October 2022.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Health CanadaRadiation Protection Bureau
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Foreign Affairs and Trade Gs&Cs