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2000 - Radionuclide Detection Technologies (.pdf 5MB)
Developers: Ted Bowyer, Harry Miley, Ray Warner
Two nuclear explosion identification devices developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, are being deployed worldwide to verify international compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). These two breakthrough technologies, RASA (radionuclide aerosol sampler-analyzer) and ARSA (automated radioxenon sampler-analyzer), permit fast, accurate, and economical detection of radionuclides from nuclear explosions. Although the technologies emerged from new research, the developers so effectively transferred them to DME Corporation, Orlando, FL, a manufacturer of safety and diagnostic equipment, that they were commercialized and deployed within 6 years. They are now part of a global monitoring network whose goal is to ultimately limit the spread of nuclear weapons.
Excerpted from PNNL FLC webpage.
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- Radionuclide Aerosol Sampler/Analyzer (RASA) - 1998 R&D 100 Award Winner