Energy and Environment

Leak Detector

Originally published in 1980
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Ni-Tec unit is a modified version of the Lixiscope, a small, battery-powered, portable x-ray instrument. Unit is used as a portable device capable of detecting radioactive leakage. If there were a leak, the radioactivity would illuminate the units viewing screen and identify the source of the leak; in the absence of radioactivity the screen shows nothing.

Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20030004797

Abstract
Ni-Tec unit is a modified version of the Lixiscope, a small, battery-powered, portable x-ray instrument. Unit is used as a portable device capable of detecting radioactive leakage. If there were a leak, the radioactivity would illuminate the units viewing screen and identify the source of the leak; in the absence of radioactivity the screen shows nothing.
Leak Detector

Leak Detector

Leak Detector

Leak Detector