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  • DoE awards nuclear fuel cycle grants

    DoE’s Office of Nuclear Energy awards grants to graduate students for research into closing the nuclear fuel cycle and recycling components of used nuclear reactor fuel

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  • IAEA is running short on funds

    You would think that with problems such as North Korea, Iran, and securing nuclear materials in the former USSR, the IAEA would be given the means to make the world safer; think again

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  • Beijing to hold dirty bomb drill next month

    In the run up to the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese authorities practice responses to various terrorist attacks

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  • EU regulation may limit use of MRI technology

    To protect employees in the electricity and mobile-phone industries, the EU formulated regulations limiting exposure to radiation — regulation which may have unintended consequences

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  • Russia worried about terrorists with WMD

    Following a 2006 agreement between Russia and the U.S., Russia is implementing a tighter control and monitoring of nuclear facilities; still, Russian authorities are worried

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  • Russia to install radiation detectors at all border crossings

    U.S. to help Russia install radiation detection systems in all of Russia’s official international border crossings, including airports, seaports, railways, and land crossings

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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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  • 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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  • DoE opens new radiation detection lab

    Cytogenetics biodosimetry makes a comeback at Oak Ridge

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  • DHS awards $8.8 million in exploratory radiation detection contracts

    Federal government continues to look for better port-of-entry radiological and nuclear detection technologies; Alliant, Rapsican, SAIC, and others get the nod

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  • AS&E receives $17.5 million service contract for ZBVs

    The U.S. government has bought several ZBVs — AS&E’s mobile backscatter X-ray scanning systems which may also be used in drive-by scanning — and the company receives a rich service and maintenance contract

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  • RAE expands its wireless detection offerings

    AreaRAE systems, already a hit with the National Guard, receive a tune-up; new sensors can detect hydrogen chloride, hydrogen flouride, and carbon monoxide

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  • HHS rejects Hollis-Eden radiation sickness treatment

    Problems with Project BioShield continue after HHS decides not to buy company’s Neumune injectable; San Diego start-up’s stock plummets

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  • Oak Ridge scientist develops anti-berrylium dust-rag

    Special coating seen as a cure for industrial inhalation problems, and technology may eventually aid in large-scale radiation clean-ups; Y-12 National Security Complex conducts tests but needs help bringing it to market;

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