Speaker
Harry Miley
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Description
The authors will sketch the technical capabilities of a 10-person team operating a mobile lab and portable equipment against a nuclear anomaly that could be a contained underground nuclear explosion. Survey, including flight, carborne, and backpack, help locate an area for investigation, then in-situ survey and sample collections can find isotopic anomalies in concentration, location, and ratio. Where surface radionuclides are not evident, sub-surface noble gas (Xe and Ar) collection and mobile lab measurement can detect leakage from even well-contained nuclear tests. The authors will discuss the initial expectations vs realities of a 4-week field exercise.
Primary author
Harry Miley
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
