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National Defense
August 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Mini Device Pinpoints Nuclear Threats A pager-sized device that has been introduced by Thermo Electron not only detects and identifies specific nuclear threats, but also transmits this information in real time to command centers.   |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Flights from Japan trip US airport radiation detectors Low levels of radiation have been detected on planes arriving at US airports from Japan, but experts say that overly sensitive detectors are culpable and the public should not be concerned. |
National Defense
December 2011
Eric Beidel |
Small Device Alerts Users to Nuclear Threats FLIR Systems Inc. has developed the nanoRaider, which is the size of a pager and can accurately identify even the most shielded of radioactive sources, they say. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2005
John McHale |
Thermo releases monitoring system for nuclear plants ViewPoint, a remote monitoring software platform, provides real-time personnel and area monitoring during routine and outage operations in the nuclear power industry. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Michael Levi |
In the Search for Loose Nukes, a Little Propaganda Goes a Long Way Strategic communication misleads terrorists into believing that nuclear attempts are futile. |
National Defense
November 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Nuclear Detectors Tested in Nevada Desert The newly formed Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) inherited the project, dedicated to stopping a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency. |
National Defense
September 2012
Stew Magnuson |
DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell. |
Science News
July 8, 2006 |
Science Safari: Visiting RadTown The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an interactive Web site that uses an animated town to provide basic information on radiation in the environment. |
National Defense
December 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008
John McHale |
Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons. |
National Defense
September 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated. |
Wired
November 2002
Steven Johnson |
Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb? |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Aaron Pressman |
Homeland Security 2.0 Five years after September 11, a new wave of smarter high-tech tools is coming to market. |
Popular Mechanics
October 22, 2008
Kate Schweitzer |
On Fringe, Radioactivity is Real, But Cures are Junk Science Radiation experts give their opinion on the mad science of this television show. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Peter Alpern |
MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials. |
National Defense
January 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports. |
National Defense
December 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Homeland Security Selects Nuke Detectors Next generation spectroscopic portal monitors fashioned by Thermo Electron Corp. 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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007
Samuel K. Moore |
Cold Fission If a nuclear version of a solar cell sounds like one of the old atomic battery concepts from the 1950s, it is, but with a potentially all-new twist. |
Scientific American
December 18, 2006
Graham P. Collins |
Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used. |
Food Processing
October 2012
David Phillips |
No More False Reads? Improvements in sensors and software allow metal detectors to approach that goal. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Sally Adee |
Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3 U.S. radiation detectors suck up the existing supply |
Chemistry World
January 25, 2013
Rebecca Brodie |
Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern. |
National Defense
January 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle. |
Scientific American
May 2009
George Musser |
Mapping the Universe with Helium A new way to squeeze information from the microwave background. |
