Nuclear Worriers

Alton Lu & Tammy Nguyen

Detecting Nuclear Misbehavior

JAN 23, 201921 MIN

Description

How do you find a radioactive rock in a shipping container, a truck, or a suitcase? It’s an extremely difficult problem that governments and researchers around the world are trying to solve. Current methods are pretty bad, but there’s been some new development. In today’s episode, we cover three new technologies that - ‘optimistically’ can answer this question.