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DHS continues the search for liquid explosives detection
Tests begin on ICx’s PaxPoint machine, but Sellex International presses hard with its Sencion alternative
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RAE announces two new handheld chemical sensor devices
MiniRAE 3000 and ppbRAE 3000 rely on photoionization to detect the release of hydrocarbon-based chemicals
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Chinese and Americans team up on flourescent explosives detection material
Manufactured from nanofibrils, the material repeatedly recovered its ability to fluoresce after exposure to explosives
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Liquid bomb tests continue at nation's airports
ICx puts its explosives detection system to the test; Boston, Los Angeles, and others host
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Bruker enhances RAID-AFM product line with radiation detection capability
Detection of chemical, biological, and nuclear contaminzation is big business, and one of the more innovative players in the field enhances its chemical large-facility detector by adding nuclear detection capabilities
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ICx shows enhanced field-portable mass spectrometer system
As worries about the use of chemicals in warfare and terrorist acts grow, both soldiers and first responders would welciome a versatile detection system which weighs only three pounds
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Hunan Province buys zNose for environmental protection
zNose offers dual technology at its best — equally useful for homeland securty and law enforcement and for environemental protection; the company makes another score in China
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Color-changing material indicates chemical weapons exposure
Tiny polymer spheres are melted into a shimmery sheet; technology could have appplications in food safety and anti-counterfeiting efforts
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Washington University makes strides in radiation treatment
Unlike previous efforts, protein-based agents shield cells from damage before and after exposure
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UPDATE: DHS reverses decision to close NYPD radiation lab
Environmental Measurements Laboratory will stay in lower Manhattan, but long-term prognosis is grim
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Kansas researchers work on "organization reasoning" for robots
Remote sensing robots often struggle to communicate with their handlers; $200K grant will go to buy critical equipment, train graduate students
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Public health labs oppose field WMD testing
Without national performance standards and field validation, Association of Public Health Laboratories says the risks of false positives and false negatives are too high
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TRIA likely to be made permanent
TRIA mandates that the U.S. government provide commercial insurers up to $100 billion in reinsurance capacity for claims arising from terrorist events; the program is set to expire in December, but is likely to be made permanent and expanded
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Port radiation detectors catch GAO heat
Recent tests of three next generation advanced spectroscopic portals find that none comes close to meeting 95 percent sensitivity; one proposed model detects enriched uranium only 17 percent of the time
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Livermore researchers prepare advanced spectrometry technology
Three-in-one machine relies on single-particle aerosol mass spectrometry; DARPA and DHS help pay the bills
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The long view
Keeping the Lights on with Nuclear Waste: Radiochemistry Transforms Nuclear Waste into Strategic Materials
How UNLV radiochemistry is pioneering the future of energy in the Southwest by salvaging strategic materials from nuclear dumps –and making it safe.
Model Predicts Long-Term Effects of Nuclear Waste on Underground Disposal Systems
The simulations matched results from an underground lab experiment in Switzerland, suggesting modeling could be used to validate the safety of nuclear disposal sites.