• Monte Carlo Modelling using MCNP, SCALE and PHITS code packages
• Advanced experience in:
  • Shielding and deep penetration problems
  • Air over ground transport problems
  • Inventory and burn-up calculations
  • Variance Reduction to increase performance of problems
• Experience in various applications, including:
  • Reactor development: neutronics, activation, and shielding calculations
  • Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) dry storage cask (DSC) development: assessment of shielding, inventory, criticality; load planning; analysis of interim spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs)
  • Assessment of shielding properties of buildings, nuclear appliances, medical applications

RadCon supports the development, manufacture and operation of advanced reactor concepts, specifically Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), with our expertise in neutronics, steady state calculations, and reactor dynamics.

These advanced reactors produce electricity of up to 300 MWe per module and are suitable for use in both single and multiple-unit plants. They can also combine nuclear energy with alternative sources.

The IAEA, which oversees the international nuclear industry, believes the technology has arrived at “an important milestone”, with there now being a global consensus that it has a vital role to play if the goal of net zero carbon emissions is to be reached. The agency has praised the flexibility and affordability that SMRs offer and believes they are a good option for replacing ageing fossil fuel-fired power plants. It highlights their suitability for remote regions with less developed infrastructure and praises their “enhanced safety performance.”

RadCon supports emerging companies with knowledge related specifically to reactors and to physics more generally. We can offer support by providing criticality and burn-up calculations. We also assess fission products and prepare activation inventories, and assist the developers of reactors by helping to calculate and collate all the data necessary for the application process with national authorities.

RadCon is a Radiation Protection consulting company. It was established in Germany by a small team of professionals with many years of experience in radiation protection, environmental radioactivity, and computational dosimetry.

Drawing on experience built up in different geographical areas, climatic conditions and ecosystems, RadCon has played a key role in national and international projects supported by the European Commission, the US Department of Energy, the IAEA, and other funding bodies.

We are committed to ensuring that future radiation protection projects effectively use the knowledge we have built up and the lessons learned — providing access to reliable, scientifically tested information to help our customers find practical, workable solutions.

We operate independently of any state, public, or international organizations. Our expertise is therefore politically impartial and relies solely on experimental scientific data — so there is no risk of conflicts of interest.

We are ready to share our broad range of knowledge to help and support any organization in need, governmental or private. We cover a broad spectrum of radiation protection services, including:

• Risk assessment
• Radiation dosimetry: retrospective dosimetry, computational dosimetry, Monte Carlo simulations
• Radioecology: sampling strategies & measurements; environmental modelling; Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS); remediation & restoration; statistical methods & data analysis
• Project management
• Communication and interaction with stakeholders and the public
• German radiation protection ordinance

• Having trouble using the new ICRP 145 Mesh-type Reference Computational Phantoms (MRCP)? We can help you.
• Extensive phantom work using ICRP Voxel and Stylized phantoms.
• Comparison of phantom types.
• Our consultants were involved in the computation of dose coefficients for the US EPA’s Federal Guidance Report FGR-15.
• Employment of phantoms with articulated limbs to represent special scenarios and irradiation configurations.
• Computations for non-human biota using the ICRP Reference Animals and Plants (RAP).

Our consultants have extensive field-work experience, used together with Monte Carlo calculations for retrospective dosimetry:

• Working for the Techa River studies
• Supporting the EU-funded SOUL and SOLO projects, and
• Supporting the US DOE-funded JCCRER Project

Radioecology is the study of the effects of radiation and radioactive substances on ecological communities. It is a highly multidisciplinary field that looks at environmental radioactivity — natural or man-made — and its effects on people and the natural environment. It deals with radioactivity as a stressor requiring risk assessment, but also as a tracer of biogeochemical and ecological processes.

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