Re: MEDHP-SEC: Article: High Security Trips Up Some Irradi

[Ted de Castro <tdc@XRAYTED.COM>]

I figured it could be close enough and as good as you're going to get at

room temp with decent sensitivity and small size.  But - of course - a

bigger market will spur innovation and who knows what may be found.



This COULD end up being a really good things - just like windoze dumbing

down computers to appeal to a wider market - making them much cheaper

for those who can really use them than could ever have been imagined

otherwise.



Dimiter Popoff wrote:

> 

> >Mass market detectors (even watches) could be very cheap.  As soon as

> >its a big enough market for a custom chip to be engineered and for

> >volume production of Cd Te to reduce the price.  Depending of course on

> >how opportunistic the purveyors want to be.

> 

> All true. My question would be, however, what makes you think CdTe

> resolution is good enough to do the job (i.e. identify nuclides

> which make a false alarm and be certain enough to stay silent)?

> I don't think anything less than HPGe would do the job... And while

> given enough market the electronics can be made like what you

> describe, we'll have to persuade those guys to carry the Dewars

> with liquid nitrogen....

> 

> Dimiter

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