ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the development of and testing of nuclear analytical and radiation detection systems. It cannot adequately cover all the latest detection technologies used in nuclear forensics, nuclear non-proliferation, and nuclear security. Since the 1990s, interrogation techniques have been used to assay uranium and plutonium in waste containers. Gamma rays are commonly used to identify and quantify radionuclides in nuclear forensics applications. The use of sophisticated coincidence and anticoincidence techniques to lower backgrounds and thus increase analytical sensitivities for radiation detection have been in existence for many years. UAVs can also be deployed for nuclear surveillance in the case of a successful terrorist attack. The usual standard electronics for data acquisition and a GPS system is usually incorporated onto a UAV. More recently, there has been a surge of research into UAVs for a variety of applications.
