Argon simulation at NATO Exercise Clean Care

The biennial medical CBRN exercise organised by Working Team 4 (the medical subgroup) of the NATO CBRN Training Task Group was this year hosted by the French Armed Forces at La Valbonne Camp near Lyon, running from 6th to 10th November 2011.
The main theme of the exercise was the decontamination and initial medical treatment of chemically and radiologically contaminated casualties, with a range of scenarios enacted over two days (8th and 9th November).

Nearly 200 participants from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were joined by observers from other NATO member and partner states including Austria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Turkey, and the United States.

Argon and our French representative, APVL ingenerie, jointly exhibited a range of equipment on the 7th November, which included the EPD-Mk2-SIM personal dosimeter simulator, the RADSIM SS2 and RDS-200-SIM survey meters, the RADSIM DS3 contamination monitor and GMP-11-SIM simulation probe, in addition to AP4C-SIM, CAMSIM and LCD3.2e-SIM chemical detector simulators. 

Argon chemical and radiological simulators on display at Ex. Clean Care.

Over the following two days the Argon simulation systems were deployed to generate realistic sources of radiation and chemical release, and to provide simulated contamination of the 'casualties' for the various detector simulators issued to a number of the exercise responders.

Argon simulation sources were deployed at the sites of ficticous chemical and radiological releases...



...and on the bodies of the 'casualties' prior to commencement of the exercise scenarios.

A French CBRN (NRBC) 2nd Dragon Regt. recce team approach the exercise release site with the AP4C-SIM chemical detector simulator and the SS2 radiological survey meter...

...surveying the site of a simulated chemical and radiological release...

...and returning for decon in the rain.  Equipment deployed had included the EPD-Mk2-SIM dosimeter simulator.

A casualty is discovered to have been radiologically contaminated using the RADSIM DS3 simulation radiation monitor at a decon station.