INL Innovation Spotlight Novel Training Surrogates for Emergency Response Training

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is seeking proposals for the development of novel training surrogates for emergency response training. The surrogates should mimic the particle and photon emission properties, as well as the chemical and physical properties, of industrial radioisotope materials. The goal is to provide realistic training for emergency response methods, procedures, and technologies. The benefits of this technology include enabling novel methods to make radioactive simulants for training US military and emergency response personnel. The applications of this technology include emergency response training. • The surrogate materials should have relatively short half-lives (<2 days) and decay to stable or short-lived daughter isotopes. • The physical and chemical properties of the matrices should closely resemble those of the radioactive material targets. • The surrogate materials should be highly effective in providing realistic training for emergency response methods, procedures, and technologies.