Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven Lab health physicist Stephen Musolino led a series of experiments in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Urban Security Technology Laboratory to evaluate how instruments originally designed for law enforcement to interdict illicit radiological or nuclear material could be repurposed in the early aftermath of an incident that released such material. This equipment would monitor radiation doses of first responders and the general public in the hours and days before large-scale federal resources arrive. Here, Musolino positions a detector, with the radiation source visible at the end of the red holder on the conveyer belt system.