Installing radiation detection equipment would increase the probability of getting caught when smuggling and this would decrease the likelihood of people trying to acquire the materials in the first place.
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Responders included International Atomic Energy Agency, World Meteorological Organization and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, which has radiation detection equipment deployed around the world.
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A "'semiconductor detector "'in ionising radiation detection physics is a device that uses a semiconductor ( usually silicon or germanium ) to measure the effect of incident charged particles or photons.
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In 1953, Eberline left the steady employment he had at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and started his company Eberline Instruments, established to develop, produce and market radiation detection devices and instruments.
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The experience suggests that radiation detection devices are being installed in public places in New York and perhaps elsewhere and that patients should be informed of the potential problem, the doctors said.
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This is not as precise as those for the other two detectors, but it was necessary to reduce the cost of covering a larger volume and to have transition radiation detection capability.
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"Until a couple of weeks ago, people were talking about eyeball scanners, and now, there's talk about dirty bombs and radiation detection, " he says, referring to the headlines at the Broadway newsstands.
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He said installing new, sophisticated radiation detection equipment at major international shipping centers such as the Rotterdam port " is a major step forward in preventing the trafficking of these dangerous materials ."
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When the Police Department installed radiation detection devices outside Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan in June, a police inspector who had been injected with radioactive dye for a stress test reportedly set them off.
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As radiation detection alarms went off all over the plant, the incident was declared a general emergency at 7 : 20 a . m . Radiation was released to the containment building and to the environment.
