“alpha-particle capable radiation detectors”
There would be no point in putting up such a device. An alpha particle is HUGE. They have a maximum travelling distance of a few inches.
But yeah, tracking technology sucks. Don’t get an EZ-pass!
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/SV/Safeguards/Symposium/2010/Documents/PapersRepository/023.pdf
http://www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/20101117_irmf_gilligan.pdf
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Tracking technology paid for by the government that can serve advanced taxation schemes such as peak usage fees does indeed suck. And the cameras allow for expansion beyond just EZ pass holders.
Plus you were a bit wrong about the rad scanners. Not about the distance most alphas travel — the limit of direct detection. But here I went and looked up just a couple of articles that use alternative technology than sees alphas farther away.
Admittedly I overestimated how far that technology progressed to date, but when I first saw these poles going up on the side of the road I thought they housed air sampling radiation detection devices, and that gave me to speculate about the other parts hanging on them which I later learned were EZ pass scanners, as I did.
In any case this is a very timely article to post. Mr. Santorum and his supporters should welcome it. It’s an opportunity to explain, expound and expand—to reach outwards towards concerned voters. That’s the way of winners.
You seem to take the posting of it as a entree to complain, to demand silent compliance, to hector, to cloak. To belittle the concerned. That’s the way of losers.