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Detained Al-Qaeda Suspect Worked at U.S. Nuclear Plants
Monday, March 15, 2010A round of arrests this month targeting suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen netted a U.S. citizen who had been employed by contractors at five East Coast nuclear power sites from 2002 to 2008, the ...
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Australian Scientists Aim to Improve Radiation Detectors
Wednesday, March 10, 2010Australian scientists have been developing a mathematical equation which would decrease the number of "nuisance alarms" set off by harmless materials passing through radiation scanning equipment at airports ...
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Agency to Pay Fine Following 2008 Plutonium Spill
Thursday, March 4, 2010The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday that the National Institute of Standards and Technology would pay a $10,000 penalty and undertake a course of corrective steps in response to a 2008 ...
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Energy Department Files to Cancel Yucca Mountain Application
Thursday, March 4, 2010The Obama administration yesterday filed a request to cancel an application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build an underground nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada (see GSN, ...
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U.S. Needs to Develop Nuke, "Dirty Bomb" Recovery Plan, GAO Finds
Tuesday, March 2, 2010The U.S. Homeland Security Department has not met an executive mandate to produce a national recovery plan to deal with the lingering effects of a terrorist assault involving a radiological "dirty bomb" or a ...
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Budget Ends Funding for Nuclear Waste Site
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010The U.S. Energy Department has requested no funding in its fiscal 2011 budget request for the underground nuclear waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, the Christian Science Monitor reported Monday ...
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Homeland Security Implements Cargo Security Rule
Friday, Jan. 29, 2010The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced this week that it had begun implementing a requirement for importers to provide advance information on cargo heading to the nation's seaports (see GSN, ...
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Commission to Explore Alternatives for U.S. Nuclear Waste
Friday, Jan. 29, 2010A new commission was expected to be unveiled today to consider options for dealing with U.S. nuclear waste from power reactors and other sources, the New York Times reported (see GSN, Aug. 24, 2009). ...
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Securing the Cities Initiative to Receive $18.5M
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010The Obama administration plans to provide $18.5 million in fiscal 2010 funds for a pilot program aimed at protecting New York City from nuclear and radiological terror threats, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer ...
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Duke Could Receive $43M for Radiation Exposure Test
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010Duke University announced yesterday that it had been awarded $3.7 million in initial federal funding for the development of an accelerated genome-based system to indicate whether an individual has been ...
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U.K. Heightens Port Security to Curb "Dirty Bomb" Threat
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010The United Kingdom has implemented tighter security measures at its seaports to better detect the illicit import of materials that could be used in a radiological "dirty bomb," the London Sun reported Monday ...
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Federal Funds Aid Researchers' Goal to Treat Radioactive Contamination
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010Federal stimulus money will be used to support a scientific research project aimed at producing a treatment for radiation exposure that might be produced by a radiological "dirty bomb," the Lawrence Berkeley ...
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Potential "Dirty Bomb" Material Collected Near NYC
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010Two medical research devices containing cesium 137 have been recovered roughly 25 miles from New York City, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration said today (see GSN, Aug. 7, 2009). ...
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Woman Dodges Prison Time for Killing Reputed "Dirty Bomb" Plotter Husband
Friday, Jan. 8, 2010A 32-year-old Maine woman was freed yesterday after receiving a suspended prison sentence for killing her husband, who she said had planned to assemble and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" following the ...
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Bunker Buster Deployment Pushed Back to Late 2010
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009The United States has delayed until December 2010 a projected date for enabling its B-2 stealth bomber to deliver a new bunker-buster bomb, Reuters reported Friday (see GSN, Aug. 3). ...