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[Ed Jewett]

A Japanese Response to Nuclear Disaster: The Smartphone that Measures Radiation

September 30th, 2011Via: Telegraph:
A mobile phone that doubles as a radiation detector? If there is one country that can pull off (and sell) such a device, it's Japan. A leading Japanese telecommunications company will unveil a smartphone next week that also acts as a radiation dosimeter to help users detect potential contamination.
In Japan, it's a timely invention and a reflection of just how seriously businesses are taking the anti-nuclear mood sweeping the country as the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl rumbles on. More than six months may have passed since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but the nation's concerns surrounding potential radiation contamination are now reaching fever pitch.
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