Argon at the Third European IRPA Congress,Helsinki, Finland

Working on the principle that you can either innovate or irradiate, and in reflection of the fact that our range of radiation detector simulation systems has been growing exponentially in response to interest from both the civil nuclear industry and increasingly concerned international proliferation control and emergency response organisations,  Argon exhibited a selected sample of our latest RADSIM portfolio with the RADPlumeSIM system at the Third European IRPA Congress, in Helsinki, Finland, 14-18 June 2010.

Although this 'broad-brush' academic event inevitably suffered by comparison with the level of informed end-user interest in training at CBW 2010, a number of delegates were surprised to find the degree of innovative opportunity being offered by Argon.  The positive responses to demonstration of the EPD-Mk2-SIM dosimeter simulator and the RDS-200-SIM survey meter simulator (with the complementary GMP-11-SIM contamination probe simulator) proved to be telling in respect of how little appreciation there is of alternatives to live radioactive source use. 

Given the reported trend towards stricter control, if not elimination, of radioactive sources for training purposes, the features and benefits of Argon RADSIM systems provide a huge incentive to further investment in this arena.