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That's like literally searching for a rice corn in a giant haystack. The only way I can see that search to remotely have a chance is an equally giant swarm of drones with radiation detectors.

Not really. Just drive the route as slow as you need to for your extra sensitive Geiger counter to be able to tell you if it has picked up something beyond background radiation. It’s a road in the middle of nowhere, there shouldn’t be many uncharted radiation sources.

More like a bright yellow corn in a flat bed of white rice .. the energy spectrum of the source is not at all like the natural background spectrum of primarily Potassium, Uranium, Thorium decay peaks.

Sounds like a good interview question.

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