ARGOS PAB Contamination Monitor

The Mirion Argos-PAB family of Whole Body Surface Contamination Monitors provides the ultimate user-friendly operation with thorough and reliable detection of external contamination on personnel working in nuclear environments. The Argos-5 PAB and Argos-3 PAB feature our most advanced gasless, Thin Plastic Scintillator (TPS) detectors optimized for the best possible alpha /beta response (along with minimizing the gamma response).

Until recently, the elimination of counting gas has been the only advantage of using of plastic scintillation detectors over traditional gas flow detectors in whole body monitors. The sacrifice for this advantage was in detector performance (low efficiency, bad uniformity) leading to longer count times. Mirion has successfully addressed the challenges of this gasless detector technology, minimizing the trade-off between operating costs and performance.