Toshiba’s radiation spotting camera means the top of ‘nuclear hotspot hide and seek’

Toshiba’s developed a camera if you want to take the guesswork out of finding radiation hotspots. Because the deadly particles / waves gather together in clumps, cleanup crews must hunt around blind using geiger counters . The “Portable Gamma Camera” overlays data from a radiation sensor onto a live picture — areas shaded with red pixels have high radiation, yellow and green is medium and blue is low. Simply point it where you suspect the effort is and it will show you precisely where to circumvent. A prototype was used in the course of the initial stages of the Fukushima cleanup and this model’s around half the scale and it is able to even run on batteries — supplying you with three hours of lifesaving radiation detection.