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Article: Team Creates Quick Dirty Bomb Test.
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- Analytic Separations News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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If a dirty bomb were detonated in a major metropolitan area, one of the first questions law enforcement officials would be asked is, "Who did it?" A combination of spectrometry and chemistry may provide one piece of the puzzle that would give officials a head start in their search for potential suspects would be an accurate description of what radioactive materials are contained in the bomb debris. But standard isotope identification technology is relatively slow; the process can take 24 hours or more.
Now a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists has developed a new quick screening methodology to identify isotopes in dirty bomb debris, a procedure that ...