Mechanical Engineering, June 1st, 2006
It's the stuff of Tom Clancy thrillers that has recently become a deadly serious matter: Agents intercept a shipment of radioactive material destined for international terrorists. The U.S. government accuses a certain country of providing the material-a claim that the country in question denies.
Stalemate? Not if a new radiation detector developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CoIo., gets wide deployment. With a sensitivity some 10 times greater than that of the best radiation detectors now in use, the device can actually come up with a radiation fingerprin...
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