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Capability deficits or capability gaps exist in the tools available for responding to and managing significant radiological incidents, whether they are power plant disasters, dirty bombs, or nuclear detonations. The lack of important response capabilities can ultimately lead to increased suffering, increased mortality, and extended recovery periods. This paper discusses the perceived gaps, requirements for products that could fill these gaps, and GattaCo’s efforts in product development to meet these product requirements. These include products suitable for patient triage in the immediate aftermath of an incident and inexpensive, disposable radiobioassay test kits for population screening and environmental monitoring for long term response management.
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McNeely, M.R. (2015). Novel Approaches to Radiation Diagnostics for Population Screening and Incident Triage. In: Apikyan, S., Diamond, D. (eds) Nuclear Terrorism and National Preparedness. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9891-4_22
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