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What If The Smartphone In Your Pocket Was Also A Radiation Detector?

In the Middle East, intelligence services furiously hunt for fissile material in Iran. In Japan, residents still worry about radiation exposure from Fukushima Daiichi. In other places, stolen or missing radioactive sources have made the news.

One solution: the cell phone.

The average, everyday smartphone could be equipped with radiation detectors and an app that would make it into a small, highly mobile, radioactive particle mapper.

This article was written by Andrew Longman, Ephraim Fischbach and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.

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