He probably didn’t know it but when Boris Johnson arrived at the Nato summit in Brussels in June, his safe passage was secured by scientists working out of a boxy, beige building near Sedgefield in the northeast of England.
The unassuming facility is occupied by Kromek, a technology company that produces iPod-like handheld devices used by governmental security squads to detect radiation at high profile events.
Kromek Group plc designs, develops and produces x-ray and gamma-ray imaging and radiation detection products for the medical, CBRNe security, Homeland Security and civil nuclear radiation detection markets.