March 8, 2012 - Marketwire - Universal Detection Technology Unveils the Smartphone Application for Its RadSmart Radiation Detection Device - Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, announced today that that it has unveiled the first generation smartphone application for its RadSmart Device. The RadSmart is designed to detect radiation levels on surfaces and in food and to automatically send the collected data to a smartphone. RadSmart is being developed in collaboration with Honeywell India (a unit of Honeywell International) and marketed by UNDT, under its brand. RadSmart will utilize a Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillator for the detection of Gamma rays. (CsI) scintillators are the most sensitive detection mechanisms for detecting Gamma radiation. RadSmart will be sensitive enough to measure normal radiation levels to 100 to 200 times that intensity. With the planned detection range of 0.001 to 9.999 µSv/h the device is expected to be capable of detecting traces of radiation on surfaces, clothing and, in particular, food contamination. The smartphone application will give the user the ability to choose to utilize the device for detecting contamination in food or on surfaces, log the readings and
share the accumulated readings with other users and databases through its social networking features. The application has been designed with the everyday user in mind with easily navigable menu options and options for sharing the data through Facebook, Twitter and radiation mapping databases.
March 9, 2012 -
WallStreet Journal - March 11, One Year On: Radioactive Pollen? - March is the peak of hay fever season in Japan. And this year it brings a new twist: radioactivity in pollen. A year after meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew radioactive particles over much of northeastern Japan, some of that contamination is being re-dispersed by trees. The biggest culprit is thought to be sugi, or Japanese cedar, an evergreen that’s actually more closely related to the giant sequoia. Sugi are everywhere in Japan, growing especially thickly in the hills and mountains of eastern Japan. Between February and May, the tiny cones on the ends of the sugi branches release their pollen spores in massive clouds, which can waft more than 100 miles – to the distress of the roughly 30% of Japanese who suffer from hay fever. During bad years, like 2008, there can be hundreds of spores afloat per cubic meter; one spot in heavily wooded Gunma prefecture logged a sugi pollen count that year of 2,207.
THE MARKET IS RITE FOR UNDT!!!!