Nuclear tests may hold key to missing-persons cases
Photo credit: Jacqueline McBride | In an undated photo at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientist Bruce Buchholz works on the accelerator mass spectrometry equipment at the lab, the equipment used in the dating technique for human remains.
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The combination of remnants from Cold War nuclear testing and "CSI"-style technology may hold the key to identifying Gilgo Beach victims and resolving missing-persons cases around the country.
Scientists at the federal government's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working with experts in Sweden and Canada, have been using carbon-14 dating to come up with more finely tuned...
