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New device to fight nuke terror threats

New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly talking

Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly talking to the media before paying his last respect for fallen police officer Peter Figoski at the Boyd Funeral Home in Babylon, NY. (Dec. 17, 2012)

Government scientists have developed a next-generation radiation detector that will be cheaper and more accurate than devices now deployed to guard New York and other cities against nuclear terrorism.

A research team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced Wednesday that it has developed a new plastic material that, unlike current detectors, can easily distinguish...

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