Project Gatekeeper: An Entrance Control System Embedded Radiation Detection Capability for Security Applications.

ABSTRACT: Threat assessments continue to conclude that terrorist groups and individuals as well as those wanting to cause harm to society have the ambition and increasing means to acquire unconventional weapons such as improvised nuclear explosive devices and radiological disposal devices. Such assessments are given credence by public statements of intent by such groups/persons, by reports of attempts to acquire radioactive material and by law enforcement actions which have interdicted, apprehended or prevented attempts to acquire such material. As a mechanism through which to identify radioactive materials being transported on an individual's person, this work sought to develop a detection system that is of lower-cost, reduced form-factor and more covert than existing infrastructure, while maintain

SUBMITTER: Martin PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7285256 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature