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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Emil Paskalev Kartalov, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Raymond M. Gamache, Prunedale, CA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A system for detection of a potentially irradiated object utilizing oxygen-17 (O) quantities in a local atmosphere contacting the potentially irradiated object. The local atmosphere comprises nitrogen-14 (N) and is typically air. TheO quantity in the local atmosphere is determined through sampling using mass spectroscopy, nuclear resonance magnetic imaging, gas chromatography, or some other method. TheO quantity in the local atmosphere is compared to a baseline quantity ofO and deviations are treated as an indicator that a nuclear reaction convertingN toO has occurred or is occurring. Typically the local atmosphere is isolated to some degree from an external atmosphere via some type of enclosure or container, and the external atmosphere provides the baseline quantity ofO used for the comparison.