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Nuclear Materials Screening Study Bolstered By Federal Grant (9/23/07)

BerkeleySAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Researchers at UC Berkeley are launching an ambitious new effort to find better methods of detecting nuclear material. (Conitnue ...)

New grants to help researchers improve nuclear detection, domestic security (9/14/07)

BERKELEY – A pair of federal grants will help researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, improve domestic security by developing better methods of detecting nuclear material. (Continue ...)

Grant Won For Nuclear Defense (9/07/07)

UC Berkeley researchers will be working on a new project to improve nuclear defense technology, using a $1.4 million grant the campus received from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation last month. (Contnue ...)

UC Berkeley team to study nuclear detection for Homeland security (9/04/07)

What do a terrorist nuke and kitty litter have in common?

They can look the same to a radiation-detector. So can a bunch of bananas.

All of them give off gamma rays and thereby highlight a critical problem in efforts to protect the nation from smuggled nuclear materials: How can screeners find the bad stuff without slowing the inspection of imported goods to an economy-crippling crawl? (Continue ...)