Anita [TM] development. It looks like a Kyocera 7135. New radioactivity function:
abcnews.go.com
<LIVERMORE, Calif. April 18 —
... RadNet, is designed to make calls, surf the Web, act as a Personal Digital Assistant, pinpoint locations with Global Positioning System technology and sniff out radioactive materials with a cutting-edge sensor. It is one of several national security projects under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
"It almost sounds like science fiction, but it's here today," said Simon Labov, director of the new Radiation Detection Center at Lawrence Livermore, which celebrated its formal opening Thursday with a display of the RadNet and other devices.
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The Ultra-Spec uses extremely low temperatures within one degree of absolute zero, or -459 degrees Fahrenheit to detect gamma rays emitted by radioactive materials. It works by recording, very precisely, the rise in temperature when a single gamma ray hits the detector's superconducting material, which is usually tin.
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Much of the technology on display Thursday uses gamma ray detection because gamma rays travel farther and are easier to identify than other tiny particles emitted by nuclear material, Labov said. Radioactive substances also emit neutrons, which are detected by other sensor technology.
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