Jan 30 1970
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
AEC announced portable atomic camera using californium 252 to generate neutrons to penetrate most metals and other opaque materials and detect weaknesses or foreign substances had been developed by Battelle-Northwest at AEC's Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Wash. Other applications of camera included safety checks of radioactive heat sources and reactor components and possible use to examine bone marrow and flesh for tumors. (AEC Release N-7)
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