Homeland security selects nuke detectors.

• Author: Williams, Robert H.
• Position: TECH TALK

Next generation spectroscopic portal monitors fashioned by Thermo Electron Corp. of Waltham, Mass., will be installed in ports and border entry points to detect and halt the introduction into the United States of nuclear weapons and radiological materials.

In order to gain control over the more than 64,000 containers and 365,000 vehicles that arrive in the U.S. each day, radiation detection equipment is to be deployed to some...