The nuclear electronics is often associated primarily with the fundamental
research conducted in nuclear laboratories and astrophysics. Yet
many would be quite surprised to find out an extent it directly affects
our everyday life. The food safety, the security at airports, medical
examinations, doping tests, forensic investigations and so on are all
provided with the nuclear analytical instrumentation. The technological
advance in the life science, biology, ecology, medicine, semiconductors,
remote sensing and many others relay heavily upon the information
which comes uniquely and, what is particularly important, non-destructively
from nuclear sensors. This information can be either a chemical
composition of a material dealt with, or a crystal or atomic structure, or
the thickness of individual layers in a multilayer formation of a complex
shape, or the mass of molecules, or a DNA structure. The number of
possible applications is wide and expanding rapidly almost on a daily
basis. Besides, even in traditional areas of the research and development
specialists need to observe smaller features, a lesser percentage of
contaminations, etc., but, at the same time, scanning larger areas or
volumes. Therefore, the nuclear electronics as a discipline must continuously
evolve in its search for new detection methods or more elaborate
processing techniques in order to deliver much needed systems with a
better resolution, accuracy, reproducibility and the speed of operation.