Number of U.S. nuclear smuggling experts to shrink
Published 20 February 2008
There are between 35 to 50 experts in the United States specializing in identifying smuggled nuclear materials and nuclear bomb components; trouble is, about half of them are set to retire in the next fifteen years, and the pipeline of young researchers who could replace them are nearly empty; scientific organizations call for action
There is brain drain, and this one is more dangerous than others. The Washington Post’s Spence Hsu reports that the U.S. ability to detect nuclear smuggling will soon be weakened as specialists in the field retire. He cites the warning of two scientific associations which warned the other day that the retirement of these experts in the next fifteen years - about half of the already-few U.S. experts
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