New advance in radiation detection
SEP 21, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024687
The Tennessean : Arnold Burger and fellow Fisk University researchers have just made it easier for Homeland Security agents to tell the difference between a dirty bomb and a banana.Fruit, such as a banana contains potassium, which can give off the same radiation signature as plutonium.The Fisk researchers, in partnership with Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc, and Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, have developed a cheaper, easy-to-produce, new type of radiation-detecting crystal that is more accurate than most of the devices on the market.The group has just won an R&D 100 magazine award , given to the 100 cleverest inventions of the year for their work.
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