Abstract
People generally associate fear with “nuclear”, “radioactive” and “insects”. It is speculated that a release of radioactive living insects would instill more fear into the general public than a “traditional” style radiological dispersion device (RDD). This paper evaluates the potential threat of an insect-based RDD using experimental data. The results of this project found that insect-based RDDs are an insignificant threat due to the challenges in making insects radioactive enough to pose any danger to humans without killing the insects.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7290/ijns040103
Recommended Citation
Goddard, Braden; Metwally, Walid; and Ababneh, Ahmad
(2018)
"Irradiation Experiment for Living Insect-Based Radiological Dispersal Device,"
International Journal of Nuclear Security:
Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 3.
https://doi.org/10.7290/ijns040103
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns/vol4/iss1/3
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