The
Tennessean:
Arnold
Burger and fellow Fisk University researchers have just
made it easier for Homeland Security agents to tell the
difference between a dirty bomb and a banana.Fruit, such as a
banana contains potassium, which can give off the same
radiation signature as plutonium.The Fisk researchers, in
partnership with Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc, and Lawrence
Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, have developed a
cheaper, easy-to-produce, new type of radiation-detecting
crystal that is more accurate than most of the devices on the
market.The group has just won an
R&D
100 magazine award, given to the 100 cleverest inventions
of the year for their work.
