No, the speaker wasn't a tattoo artist with a penchant for stating the obvious; she was a radiation oncology tech.
Without that coverage, Mr. Garland said, his wife probably would not have gotten the quality of care she later received — a new high-tech radiation treatment that stopped the tumor growth near her spine and cost about $107,000.
Informants and police posing as connected gangsters penetrated the smuggling networks, using old-fashioned undercover tactics as well as high-tech gear from radiation detectors to clothing threaded with recording devices.
The department did a lot of other things right, too — buying state-of-the-art equipment (high-tech helicopters, chemical and radiation sniffing devices), monitoring Middle Eastern Web sites, hiring elite academic talent.
WASHINGTON — Many of the hundreds of workers at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in New Hill, N.C., are busy with high-tech tasks like calibrating equipment, monitoring radiation fields or controlling the reactor.
Across much of Fukushima's rolling green countryside they descend on homes like antibodies around a virus; men wielding low-tech tools against a very modern enemy, radiation.
Indeed already now, superconducting nanoelectronic devices are widely used in various high-tech applications: ultra-sensitive detectors of electromagnetic radiation (e.g., bolometers or transition edge sensors), electric voltage standards utilizing Josephson effect, and quantum bits.
Orion's high-tech computers will be subjected to deep-space radiation.
The purpose-built buggy runs on caterpillar tracks over the seabed beneath the Pentland Firth and bristles with high-tech cameras, lights, locator devices and the all-important radiation detectors.
