Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives

January 27th, 2010 admin

Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and boron respectively. The collisions produce beams of gamma rays of various energies as well as neutrons. These beams are then passed through the cargo. By measuring the way the beams are absorbed, Goldberg and company say they…


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