This research group focuses on radiation detection, emergency response, and consequence-management topics. Students work on projects involving dose assessment, environmental monitoring, the development of new radiation-detection equipment, and integrating robotics with existing detector systems.
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NSSPI Projects in this Area
- Analysis of Radionuclide Deposition Ratios from the Fukushima-Daiichi Incident
- Development and Demonstration of an Ultra-Low-Background Liquid Scintillation Counter
- Development of an Optical Sensor to Measure Opacity Changes in Polyvinyl Toluene Scintillators
- Direction Sensitive Neutron Detectors for Border Monitoring
- Effective Contamination Detection for Livestock Following a Radiological Event
- Encrypted Nanoparticles for Security, Counterindustrial Espionage, and Counterfeiting
- Evaluating Minimum Detectable Activity as a Function of Velocity
- Implementation of Integrated Planning Concept to Strengthen Indonesian Radiation Emergency Response Capabilities
- Inverse Transport for Border Monitoring
- Measurement and Modeling of Shielding and Attenuation Effects on Radiation Portal Monitors
- Miniature Distributed Detector Arrays Mounted on a Biological Sensor Platform
- Mobile, Vehicle-Based Radiation Detection Systems Development
- Modeling Study of Proposed Field Calibration Source Using K-40 Source and High-Z Targets for Sodium Iodide Detector
- Physical Security System Sensitivity to DBT Perturbations
- Post RDD-Scenario Dosimetry of Search and Rescue Dogs
- Preliminary Dose Assessment for Emergency Response Exercise at Disaster City
- Radiation Detection Using Integrated Circuits
- Remotely Accessible Radiation Detection Laboratory for Distance Education
- SHIELD (Smuggled HEU Interdiction through Enhanced anaLysis and Detection): A Framework for Developing Novel Detection Systems Focused on Interdicting Shielded HEU
- Simple Two-PMT Directional Detector for Radiation Source Localization in Nuclear Security Applications