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Radiation Detection Technology for Homeland Security

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The term “Homeland Security” has been defined in the United States as “Efforts to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.” Radiological scanning instrumentation is undergoing broad deployment globally with passive and active-sensing techniques to search for nuclear and radiological, and other contraband. Active techniques include X-ray or gamma-ray radiography, and neutron or gamma-ray induced signatures for the detection of explosives and nuclear material. Passive detection techniques include gamma-ray or neutron signature detection of radiological materials. This book chapter focuses on one aspect of homeland security, specifically the technology for radiation detection that is applied to homeland security.

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    Critical (mass) refers to the amount of material sufficiently large enough to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

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  1. US Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    Richard Kouzes

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  1. Center for Particle Physics, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Ivor Fleck

  2. IRFU, CEA Saclay IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Maxim Titov

  3. Universität Siegen FB Physik, Siegen, Germany

    Claus Grupen

  4. Labo. Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie (IMNC), Université Paris-Sud XI CNRS UMR 8165, Orsay CX, France

    Irène Buvat

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Kouzes, R. (2021). Radiation Detection Technology for Homeland Security. In: Fleck, I., Titov, M., Grupen, C., Buvat, I. (eds) Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47999-6_50-1

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