[ RadSafe ] "Nuclear detectors at Slovak border"

[Brennan, Mike (DOH)]

Three check points.  That should just about cover it. 

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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:40 PM
To: Jaro; RADSAFE
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "Nuclear detectors at Slovak border"

I guess the U.S. cannot spend enough on detectors in this country.  Now
they have to go to Europe.

--- Jaro <jaro-10kbq at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Nuclear detectors at Slovak border
> Aviation Week & Space Technology, 11/12/2007, page
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> Edited by Edward H. Phillips
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> Radiation-detection equipment has been installed at three checkpoints 
> in Slovakia along its border with Ukraine. The equipment can detect a 
> broader array of gamma-ray and neutron sources, including highly 
> enriched uranium and plutonium. The U.S. Energy Dept.'s National 
> Nuclear Security Administration is working with Slovak officials to 
> stop illicit trafficking of nuclear materials.
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"If you guard your toothbrushes and diamonds with equal zeal, you'll
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- Former national security advised McGeorge Bundy
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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