tech talk

December 2006

Homeland Security Selects Nuke Detectors

Edited by Robert H. Williams

Next generation spectroscopic portal monitors fashioned by Thermo Electron Corp. of Waltham, Mass., will be installed in ports and border entry points to detect and halt the introduction into the United States of nuclear weapons and radiological materials.

In order to gain control over the more than 64,000 containers and 365,000 vehicles that arrive in the U.S. each day, radiation detection equipment is to be deployed to some 380 border and port facilities during the course of the next several years.

The spectroscopic portal monitors will help security officials to quickly separate false positives from real-life threats, the company says.

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