Naslov
Humanitarian demining: the role of atomic and nuclear physics based technologies

Autori
Valković, Vladivoj ; Antonić, Davor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of Second Australian - American Joint Conference on the Technologies of Mines and Mine Countermeasures / - Sydney, 2001

Skup
Second Australian - American Joint Conference on the Technologies of Mines and Mine Countermeasures

Mjesto i datum
Sydney, Australija, 27.03.2001. - 29.03.2001

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
humanitarian demining, nuclear physics sensors

Sažetak
Using the classical technologies (metal detectors, dogs, prodding) finding, localizing and identifying the landmines is time consuming, expensive and extremely dangerous job. In addition it will take more than a century to demine the affected areas, mainly because the same tedious procedure has to be applied in the areas suspected to be contaminated with landmines as in areas that are really mined. The mined areas are close to the battlefield, and they are heavily polluted by metal pieces from the explosion of different ordinances (an exploded ordnance results in more than 1000 fragments which could be picked-up by a metal detector). Therefore there is a need for technological breakthrough in this field. The atomic and nuclear physics sensors could be made to be noncontact tools ; in other words they could be made to detect, and identify the landmine from some distance. Therefore their primary use should be in suspected area reduction. In this work the overview of neutron and x-ray sensors is presented. Although good results have been reported by detection of different types of radiation emitted by explosives, the most promising are considered to be backscattered neutrons and the narrow bands of UV and X-ray radiation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika, Interdisciplinarne tehničke znanosti

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