{"id":437,"date":"2003-03-25T04:36:38","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T04:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:04","slug":"cosmic-rays-catch-concealed-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"cosmic rays catch concealed nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the fear of terrorists using dirty bombs  increasing, screening for smuggled nuclear materials has become more  important than ever. Physicists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory  in New Mexico have invented a device that uses cosmic rays to detect  dense materials such as plutonium and uranium, they report in the March  20 <em>Nature.<\/em> As cosmic rays pass through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, they generate  highly penetrating subatomic particles called muons. The researchers  have built a detector that can trace the path of the muons as they pass  through dense material. The detector uses a computer to gather the  information and generate an image. According to the report, the detector  could reveal the outline of a block of uranium concealed inside a truck  full of sheep. The researchers say their method is harmless and  inexpensive compared to X-rays, and could be suitable for scanning  trucks and cars for nuclear materials at border crossings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/25\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the fear of terrorists using dirty bombs increasing, screening for smuggled nuclear materials has become more important than ever. Physicists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have invented a device that uses cosmic rays to detect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}