Cosmic Ray Particles Will Reveal Molten Hearts of Fukushima Daiichi's Reactors

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This same technique can be used to LOOK INSIDE VOLCANOS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography#Mu-Ray_project

It has also been used to search for unknown chambers in the pyramids [1].

[1] http://www2.lns.mit.edu/fisherp/AlvarezPyramids.pdf

From what I've heard from people close-ish to that experiment, it was always a PoC to see of muon tomography could be used to passively scan trucks for nuclear material.

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