[ RadSafe ] ell phone radiation detectors

[Doug Aitken]

This may be old news for many of you, but while looking for something else,
I came across this webpage from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
which describes their work on integrating an efficient radiation detector
into a cell phone. 

This seems to dovetail with the work at Purdue, although the Purdue effort
(below) is mainly on the software integration of multiple sensor
measurements to target the source, while the Lawrence Livermore effort is on
the "front end"
http://rdc.llnl.gov/rdp/cell_phone.html

Interesting that the LL device can be set up as a personal meter, as well as
a "silent sentry. Personally, I agree with other posters on this topic, that
I would not be much in favor of working as a "secret agent" for some
government agency without the benefit of knowing that I was in a detectable
radiation field!
Regards
Doug
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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of Neill Stanford
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:54 AM
To: 'Cary Renquist'; 'Bjorn Cedervall'; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] NYC Council bill on detectors: Simple question

....
"Cell phone sensors detect radiation to thwart nuclear terrorism
Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana
to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect
and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological
"dirty bombs"
and nuclear weapons.
Such a system could blanket the nation with millions of cell phones
equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of
radioactive material. Because cell phones already contain global
positioning locators, the network of phones would serve as a tracking
system, said physics professor Ephraim Fischbach. Fischbach is working
with Jere Jenkins, director of Purdue's radiation laboratories within
the School of Nuclear Engineering."

See this link for the whole article: 
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080122FischbachNuclear.html 

Neill Stanford, CHP
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