This week's New Scientist carries a story about a new smartphone that can sniff our dirty bombs:
"A smart phone that can detect radiation may soon be helping the police to find the raw materials for radioactive 'dirty bombs' before they are deployed. The phones will glean data as the officers carrying them go about their daily business, and the information will be used to draw up maps of radiation that will expose illicit stores of nuclear material."
"The detector is the brainchild of engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, US, who developed it in response to the rise in illicit trafficking of radioactive materials."
I've seen some great detection technology recently that I'll hopefully get a chance to write about very soon... it looks like this sort of method of searching for dangerous materials is the way forward.
