One, called XENON100, which is also in Gran Sasso, ran for the course of a year, but only saw two "events" - not enough to rule out that this might have been some stray background radiation.

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The power needed to operate the device is sufficiently small that it can get all the juice it needs from stray (or transmitted) electromagnetic radiation or miniature solar collectors.

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