The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) recently successfully recovered a disused, high-activity cesium-137 source from Massachusetts General Hospital in downtown Boston, Mass. and transported ...
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it recovered high-activity radioactive materials from an oncology clinic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and the Mexican ...
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Multivac and the Snapsil Corp. have recently struck a cooperation agreement for the use of the patented Snapsil easy-opening packaging concept on Multivac thermoforming packaging machines. Packagers gain access to Snapsil's innovative ...
Spectroscopy and security could both benefit from a Georgia Tech scintillator crystal based on nanopowders. Gamma detection Detecting the tell-tale gamma radiation that might indicate the presence of nuclear devices or materials is a ...
Tags: GTRI, Gamma detection, SPIE DSS, 2012, Baltimore