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Article: Decision Sciences' X-ray alternative worth billions? Startup wants piece of homeland security contracts.(Decision Sciences Corp.)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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Richard Smith's company is making what he says is the equivalent of the better mouse trap when it comes to screening systems that detect radiation or nuclear bombs.
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Based on the behavior of little-known subatomic particles called muons, Smith and his colleagues at San Diego's Decision Sciences Corp. are completing a prototype that can detect radioactive materials such as uranium and plutonium without using X-rays.
Current X-ray detection systems used by the federal government at the nation's ports of entry, airports and other sites aren't effective and are unsafe, said Smith.
"These are ineffective, they're ...