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RE : Article: Cellphone sniffs out dirty bombs
I hope it will not pick up too many nuclear medicine patients....RadNet will
end-up being an interesting map...
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996766
Cellphone sniffs out dirty bombs
10:29 09 December 04
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A smart phone that can detect radiation may soon be helping the police to
find the raw materials for radioactive "dirty bombs" before they are
deployed. The phones will glean data as the officers carrying them go about
their daily business, and the information will be used to draw up maps of
radiation that will expose illicit stores of nuclear material.
The detector is the brainchild of engineers at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, US, who developed it in response
to the rise in illicit trafficking of radioactive materials (see graphic).
Customs officers at ports and airports already wear pagers that detect
radiation. But any radioactive material not picked up by border controls can
be hidden in towns and cities, with little chance that it will be found.
Now LLNL engineers funded by the US Department of Homeland Security have
devised a way to tackle the problem. They have turned a multi-function
internet cellphone into a wireless sensor that will feed data into a new
type of radiation monitoring network that they are calling a RadNet.
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