RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: DTRA20B-001
RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $164,495
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- DTRA20B-001
- Solicitation
- 20.B
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2021-02-23 → 2021-09-24
Description
The event of nuclear explosion generates harsh radiation conditions, evaluation of which is critical in order to protect the military and civilian personnel from serious harm. Due to these harsh conditions only very simple methods of radiation assessment are employed, such as measurement of equivalent dose. Improvements to current instrumentation are sought that would provide energy resolved dose information, as well as isotope identification capabilities. This requires new advanced scintillation materials capable of very high count rate operation with enough light yield to provide adequate energy resolution for isotope identification. In the proposed project, we plan to develop ultra-fast scintillation materials and demonstrate their high count-rate and necessary energy resolution capabilities.