To: FairOpinion
I still don't understand how any nuclear material that isn't a gamma-emitter can be detected inside say, a shipping container. (But I'd like to) Plutonium and Uranium as nuclear fuels are AFAIK potent alpha-emitters, particles easily stopped by steel.
8 posted on
07/15/2006 5:52:24 PM PDT by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Islam claims to have invented the zero; True or not, it's been downhill ever since.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Alpha particles pick up some electrons and become helium...
12 posted on
07/16/2006 4:13:09 PM PDT by
Donald Meaker
(Boy, that Rondell fellow plays all over the ice, eh?)
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