Science news articles about 'dirty bombs'

... worry that hospitals are not adequately prepared to handle casualties from a radioactive 'dirty bomb,' said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The finding underscores the ...

... a device based on the gamma-ray detection equipment used in ESA’s Integral astronomy satellite to detect and identify the radioactive material mixed with conventional explosives in ‘dirty bombs’.

... 's Rescue Robot, also known as RoboCue, taking a mock patient to safety as part of a training exercise for dirty-bomb containment and casualty rescue, held late last year in Tokyo. read more

... -ray machines for medical imaging, as well as provide the expertise to develop portable radiation monitors that could be used by security services to detect dirty bombs and monitor radioactive waste.

... Dicker will be moving this research forward so that it may ultimately help individuals exposed to "dirty bombs," or cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. Their research team pioneered using ...

Radioactive cobalt cleared from Lebanese lab.

... nanotechnologies in the design stage to simulating the radiation damage from a "dirty bomb" over time. NIST researchers plan to write a software program encoding the new technique to make ...