$500 Radiation Detector Developed
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TOKYO — A Japanese anti-nuclear group said Friday that it has developed a cheap radiation detector that it hopes to market overseas.
“We got the idea to develop a cheap radiation monitoring device in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union last April,” group leader Tetsuo Iesaka said.
He said the detector costs $500, compared to $1,200 to $1,800 for conventional detectors in Japan.
Several local trading firms have sounded out his group--named Kyogaku-sha (Joint Study Group)--on exporting the machine, and one company took it to a Japanese industrial fair in Moscow.
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