RE: Radiation Detection Climbing Priority List For Coast Guard

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>]

Radiation Detection Climbing Priority List For Coast Guard 

By ROBERT A. HAMILTON 

Day Staff Writer, Navy/Defense/Electric Boat 

Published on 2/11/2004 

New London - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is testing equipment for

the war on terrorism that would have been the stuff of science fiction only

a few years ago.

One of the laboratory's program managers, addressing Coast Guard Academy

cadets Tuesday, described a cell phone that scans for nuclear bombs and

automatically calls authorities if it finds one



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This is great -- now if they could come up with one that detects a ship

loaded with several kilotons of ANFO chemical explosive, then we might

actually have something to counter a real threat, instead of "the stuff of

science fiction."





Jaro



http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html



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