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Rhino poachers in South Africa now face the new potential threat of radioactive horns, and it’s thanks in part to researchers at Texas A&M University's Nuclear Engineering Department.

Department professor Craig Marianno said he was first approached with the offer of helping embed nuclear material in rhinoceroses’ horns while at an International Atomic Energy Agency conference in Vienna, Austria, several years ago.

"One of my colleagues, who I've worked with for several years, named Jamer Larkin from [the University of the Witwatersrand] mentioned that he needed some technical help with simulations, primarily on looking at radiation transport and dose to the animal," Marianno said. "I told him that I have the tools to do that. ... And that's kind of how

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