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HN headline in 3 years: airport sniffer dogs being trained to smell for bananas.

Because that's what the horn-smugglers will be carrying in attempts to deflect why the airport scanner is detecting radiation in their luggage.




It's the potassium in the bananas, so potassium rich salt will also do this. Presumably many other common items are also sufficiently potassium rich.


If you leave a scintillating detector such as a Radiacode or similar on a bag of potassium chloride water softener salt for a while you can actually detect a very slight amount of radioactivity and generate a spectrum :)




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