Advanced Design Consulting and Binghamton University to Begin Designing Devices Able to Detect Stockpiled Uranium and Plutonium
Experts under the auspices of Advanced Design Consulting in Lansing, New York, and Binghamton University are beginning to design and prototype monitors that can remotely detect plutonium, uranium, and other fissile materials used in the making of nuclear weapons. The designers are working under a contract granted to ADC and Binghamton University by Nuclear Nonproliferation Administration (NNPA).
Lansing, NY (PRWEB) March 8, 2005 -– Experts under the auspices of Advanced
Design Consulting in Lansing, New York, and Binghamton University are beginning
to design and prototype monitors that can remotely detect plutonium, uranium,
and other fissile materials used in the making of nuclear weapons. The designers
are working under a contract granted to ADC and Binghamton University by Nuclear
Nonproliferation Administration (NNPA).
“We’ve assembled a team whose
members have expertise in the areas of radiation detection and device
packaging,” says Alex Deyhim, president of ADC. “The monitors will be an
innovative implementation of computer memory technology to produce a passive
gamma ray detector. In addition the development of such a devise will support
and strengthen our nation’s ongoing concern of limiting nuclear proliferation
for potential dangerous countries such Iran and North Korea.”
“By
recording any changes in gamma ray emissions, the detectors will be able to
accurately assess the size and location of stockpiled plutonium and uranium”
says Eric Johnson, Advanced Design Consulting USA’s vice president of research.
The monitoring can be implemented in a small, non-powered package for
clandestine surveillance or incorporated into a communication network for
continuous assessment.
The project team is made up of Eric J. Cotts,
professor of physics and materials science at Binghamton University; Eric
Johnson, vice president for research at ADC; Peter Borgesen, a manager with
Universal Instruments Corporation; and John Emerson, a consulting expert from
the Sandia Corporation.
About the company: Advanced Design Consulting
USA, Inc. (ADC) is a privately owned company organized and structured to provide
technical services to all types of clients from small scientific entrepreneurs
to universities, government agencies and private industries. The firm’s
expertise and activities are primarily related to engineering design, research
and development, testing and custom fabrication. It searches for innovative
solutions to difficult problems. To learn more about ADC products and services,
visit the website at www.adc9001.com.
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