SBIR/STTR Research Award
Standoff Detector using Large-Volume Advanced Scintillation Materials
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Recipient company
- RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-03-29
- Contract end date
- 2016-10-28
- UEI
- SCKQA85YU4U4
- Solicitation number
- 2015.2
- Topic code
- DTRA152-008
Research abstract
From 1993 to 2013, sixteen incidents involving highly enriched uranium associated with illegal activity has been reported to the IAEA.An implosion type of weapon would require roughly 25 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU).One component in the layered defense against nuclear weapons is standoff detection of special nuclear materials, as HEU is material that can be easily deployed in a nuclear weapon.Though detection of HEU is difficult, RMD has developed a number of large-volume scintillation materials (e.g. Cs2LiYCl6 or Cs2LiLa(Br,Cl)6) that can provide energy resolution less than 5% at 662 keV while simultaneously detecting neutrons with an efficiency equivalent to a He-3 tube.The use of a large volume is critical for the detection of low intensity signals over a small time frame.This program will provide a compact, high-efficiency standoff detector for inconspicuous searches of special nuclear materials.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Transparent Conducting Oxide Based On-Chip Modulators for Applications at Cryogenic Temperatures
- Conformal Neutron Supermirrors by Atomic Layer Deposition
- Lead Chalcogenide Mid-Wave Infrared High Detectivity Detectors
- Enabling Precise Multi-Layer Optical Coatings on Highly Curved Lenses with Atomic Layer Deposition
- Lithium Niobate Crystal Growth and Wafer Fabrication
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Standoff Detector using Large-Volume Advanced Scintillation Materials
- Standoff Detection of Highly Enriched Uranium
Research funding history
930 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $346,950,619. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security