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Caption: The highly portable RadScout detector and analyzer measures energy released from radioactive material and then determines the specific material that produced the energy. It locates nuclear materials using a special germanium crystal to detect minute amounts of gamma rays and neutrons that all radioactive materials emit. Developed within the LLNL nuclear weapons program, RadScout is licensed to a leader in commercialized particle-detection equipment. It uses off-the-shelf components and could be commercially available soon.
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