Portable Radiation Detection System

Handheld and backpack human portable radiation detection system launched by Smiths Detection. Symetrica is the technology partner for this project and provides the radiation detection and identification sub-system. The unit includes gamma, neutron and Geiger-Müller (GM) tube detectors, and can identifying highly enriched uranium, plutonium and other radioactive materials, even in very small quantities. Expertise in modelling gamma-ray detectors from Southampton University improved significantly through the participation in developing of the mass-model for the Integral spacecraft was used in the developing of the portable radiation detection system.