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Article: Muons join the fight against nuclear smugglers



I received this through another list server.  (Hopefully, I can buy stock in the company that is going to employ this technology)

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Muons join the fight against nuclear smugglers (Mar 19)

http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/3/11

Cosmic-ray muons could be used to detect nuclear material in a new radioimaging technique developed by researchers in the US. Konstantin Borozdin and colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico believe that the method could provide a safe and inexpensive alternative to conventional X-ray radiography (K N Borozdin et al. 2003 Nature 422 277).

 



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John Jacobus, MS
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