Mobile Phones to Detect Radiation and Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
Whenever news about terrorist attacks around the world is rolled out, everyone gets the feeling of curbing terrorism. But the question arises how? So here’s the answer for it.
Researchers at Purdue University is working together with the State of Indiana to develop a system that may make use of a network of mobile phones that would have the ability to detect and track radiation, enabling prevention of the occurrence of terrorist attacks with radiological dirty bombs and nuclear weapons.
Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, who is working with Jere Jenkins, director of Purdue’s radiation laboratories within the School of Nuclear Engineering, mentioned that the network of handsets that feature global positioning locators will be capable of serving as a tracking system. The phone needs to be equipped with radiation sensors that would detect even light residues of radioactive material.
It is said that the detector sensor can transmit signals to a data centre, further transmitting information to authorities without alerting the person carrying the phone.
Andrew Longman, a consulting instrumentation scientist, has developed the software that would be integrated into the system with radiation detectors. This device supports additional circuitry and would not add significant bulk to portable electronic products.
The detector has been proven to work in detecting a weak radiation source 15 feet from the sensors. However, the signals keep getting weak with the increase in distance from the sources.
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