New Way of Detecting Concealed Radioactive Material

Researchers in Maryland have proposed a scheme for detecting a concealed source of radioactive material without searching containers one by one. The concept, described in the Journal of Applied Physics, is based on the gamma-ray emission from the radioactive material that would pass through the shipping container walls and ionize the surrounding air.

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