Sabrina 2005 "How to Detect/Deter Rogue Radioactive Sources"

[ted850760]

Let's say there was a need for what you purpose..the goverment would 'require' all aircraft to install it at owners expense,make it so it emitted a beacon [like an elt] that only there satelites would receive ..and then decide whether to notify the public,, look I just saved the goverment 20 million dollars

[jrbpyro101]

There isnt really a need for this. If this is to detect nuclear accidents or whatever, there are already on the ground detectors all over the world, there would be no need for that. If you are saying people should equip their planes with geiger counters to detect radiation from radioactive materials on the ground such as a nuclear weapons or large deposits of radioactive materials that wont work, you would need a scintillator and even then it wouldnt pick up radiation that far away.

[chicago2paris]

Check out the full version of the idea at: "Sabrina 2005." Princeton was given a contract to study the issue in December of 2005 and found that it works well, especially in conjunction with small UAVs.

[bord141]

Well it's a start! Nothing like starting your day out with putting $6 100LL into the wings, swiping your credit card at the end of the runway for the 20 mintue flight to the pancakes, flying through the radioactive cloud, glowing like a glow stick when you land, and eating tough and rubbery pancakes! haha

Maybe we should just stick some Geiger counters on Air Force 1 since that will be the only airplane flying when we get nuked.

[chicago2paris]

At our altitudes and speeds, simple Geiger counters can discern low level man-made concentrations of radiation from natural terrestrial and cosmic sources. It is the fortuitous discovery and position report of these low level man-made concentrations of radiation that our low and slow aircraft can provide. There are ample safeguards already in place to detect the medium to high levels of radiation you speak of.

[bord141]

So you want 'farmer Billy-Bob' to be flying in a radioactive dust cloud in their Cessna 152? Maybe if you tell them there is a fly in pancake breakfast on the other side of the cloud they would be more inclined to do it.

[chicago2paris]

Better than pancakes! Geiger equipped pilots could be exempted from most user fees. Pilots willing to participate in the "red streamer process" should be exempt from all user fees, including a refund of their fuel taxes. The key here is that these pilots are already in the air flying millions of hours each year-this program would give most the chance to be heroes & give the remainder the knowledge that they should leave the area, knowledge they would not otherwise have. It is a win-win situation