Sentences with phrase «radiation detectors»

Each particle entering the transition radiation detector releases radiation that hints at its mass.

The light emission from such radiation detector materials could provide a signature for the type of radioactive material present.

«DoSEN is an innovative concept that will lead to a new generation of radiation detectors, or dosimeters, to aid in understanding the hazards posed by the radiation environment of space,» says Schwadron.

Then again, the Boy Scouts and amateur scientists who regularly visit here with radiation detectors don't look particularly alarmed.

She has worked on both sides of the fence, from teaching in a boys» reform school to making and marketing radiation detectors for medical and space applications, from being a milieu therapist at a psychiatric hospital to doing environmental research on Lake Tahoe, from freelance calligraphy and graphic work to being an educational activist, helping to found and administer a Waldorf School.

Enoto and his colleagues put one mystery to rest earlier this year, when four radiation detectors picked...

Landfills do not allow the disposal of low - level radioactive waste and are equipped with sensitive radiation detectors.

Members of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee were surprised to learn that Marine Patrol, working with the East End Marine Task Force on Long Island Sound, has been carrying radiation detectors.

The measurements have also played a vital role in UNH space scientists» efforts to develop both the first Web - based tool for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near - Earth, lunar, and Martian space environments and a space radiation detector that possesses unprecedented performance capabilities.

The team then used a simple radiation detector to track the movement of radiotracers into the plant's shoots and leaves.

Indeed, a typical radiation detectors, like Geiger - Muller counters have technical limitations in the remote detection of sources.

To detect dirty bombs in the offing, gamma and other radiation detectors have been deployed to airports and seaports as well as police departments around the country.

A sensitive new radiation detector enables astronomers to explore regions of the universe hidden from optical telescopes, such as sites where stars are now being born

Rainer Weiss in his lab in MIT's Building 20 in the late 1970s, working on radiation detectors called bolometers.

Our a-Si, low - temperature polysilicon (LTPS), and organic semiconductor TFTs — which have the advantage of low - temperature deposition and low - elastic modulus — have also been applied to various radiation detectors, including x-ray, ultrasound, and neutron imaging.

By now, scientists have figured out how to manufacture spintronic nanogenerators, microwave radiation detectors, and magnetic field sensors that surpass their electronic analogs.

Collaborative work with researchers at Stanford University and a private company are helping identify which materials might be the best for gamma radiation detectors.

Flores takes us on a tour of the facility, pointing out the various enforcement layers, from cameras focused on license plates and faces to the massive yellow radiation detectors.

* Quality Control of all imaging and radiation detector equipment for optimal operation and performance.

Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors — designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests — to show that iodine - 131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster.

Remediation work started 10 years ago, when the EPA mapped the mines by investigating company records and surveying the land with helicopters equipped with radiation detectors.

John Raymond was about to sell his home in Lewiston until Environmental Protection Agency officials showed up last spring armed with radiation detectors.

There will be bomb sniffing dogs, officers with radiation detectors, and expect to see the NYPD's counterterrorism task force on guard.

At the front of the former courtroom, Youri shows us the dosimeter (radiation detector) he will carry so he can measure radiation levels as we travel around.

The papers in a special issue of the journal Space Weather document and quantify measurements made since 2009 by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) radiation detector.

For example, an aerial robot equipped with a radiation detector, 3D camera system, and temperature and humidity sensors could inspect something like the Fukushima nuclear reactors, where the radiation level is too high for humans, or fly into tight crawlspaces such as mines or collapsed buildings.

What is really keeping us safe is probably not those radiation detectors but the basic physics of trying to carry out a radioactive attack.

Van Allen was principal investigator for Mariner 4's trapped - radiation detector, designed to answer that question for Mars.

The new approach involves using a radiation detector to take multiple periodic measurements of an air sample for at least two hours.

These bits include sockets for photomultiplier tubes from the radiation detectors, and coaxial cables used for signals and timing purposes.

Using the grant support, Sue Clark of the Chemistry Department will study nuclear forensics and Marc Weber and colleagues of the Center for Materials Research will develop new crystals for radiation detectors.

During her time at the Lab, she contributed to numerous programs, both internal and external, and has made fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of radiation detectors, micro-nano fabrication and materials science, opto - electronics and heterojunction transistors.

With its three cameras, four spectrometers, two radiation detectors, and weather monitoring station, MSL's primary goal is to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support microbial life.

The Matroshkas, containing thousands of radiation detectors, will be supplied by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

I have no idea about radiation exposure other than I toured a nuclear plant in NJ several years ago & even after walking around IN the plant for an hour or so the radiation detectors picked up nothing.

DO NOT dispose of the litter prior to 80 days; garbage dumps have radiation detectors and will charge you a hefty fine if radiation is detected.

A video of Fukushima, Japan, after the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, feature strangely beautiful shots of its devastated landscape, accompanied by escalating intermittent beeps of a radiation detector whose effect is at once anxiety - inducing and ethereal.

Watching his radiation detector ping away in the deserted area, he says:

1) Research and development of radiation detectors and general sensors.

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