Cellphones to be equipped with radiation detetors.
A smart phone that can detect radiation may soon be helping the police to find the raw materials for radioactive “dirty bombs” before they are deployed. The phones will glean data as the officers carrying them go about their daily business, and the information will be used to draw up maps of radiation that will expose illicit stores of nuclear material.
The detector is the brainchild of engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, US, who developed it in response to the rise in illicit trafficking of radioactive materials (see graphic). Customs officers at ports and airports already wear pagers that detect radiation. But any radioactive material not picked up by border controls can be hidden in towns and cities, with little chance that it will be found.
Methinks the paranoia’s getting to be a bit much.
This should settle the question of whether or not cell phones are blasting cancer/tumor-causing beams into users’ heads once and for all.
I would think that if one stood in the shadow of an immense Japanese Monster stomping all over Tokyo, that would be an indication of too much radiation.