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MIT develops super-ensitive explosive detector

Capable of detecting RDX...

Super-sensitive explosive detector developed
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
The new detector, which works at a distance, could potentially be used to identify suicide bombers or find explosive booby-traps, the researchers suggest. ...

$33 million order for airport explosives detection

L-3 Receives $33 Million Explosives Detection System Order
SecurityInfoWatch (press release) - Arlington Heights,IL,USA
L-3 Communications Security & Detection has received a $33 million order from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for the company's eXaminer 3DX ...

100 mail processing centers nationwide to get Anthrax scanners

Cheyenne Mail Center gets anthrax detector
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
By BILL LUCKETT. CHEYENNE -- Although 23,000-plus "white powder incidents" since the October 2001 anthrax scare have turned out to ...

SFO earmarks $12.5 million out of $81 million for new explosive detection

SFO GETS NEW FUNDING FOR SECURITY, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
KPIX-TV 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... One of the most significant projects includes $12.6 million for the last phase of the airport's in-line explosive detection system for domestic terminals ...

Nanotubes for chemical detection

Chemical Detection with a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Capacitor
Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
We show that the capacitance of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is highly sensitive to a broad class of chemical vapors and that this transduction ...

Explosive detector stronger than dog's noses

UA creates stronger explosives detector:
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
[Technology News]: SAN DIEGO, March 14 : The University of Arizona has been developing an explosives detector that is about 1,000 times more sensitive than ...

Hotel installs Anthrax detection system

Los Angeles Hotel Installs Anthrax Detector
SecurityInfoWatch (press release) - Arlington Heights,IL,USA
According to the statement from UDT, the detector was placed inside the hotel's HVAC system "at the point where air from the lobby and the common areas are ...

Hawaii airports get $9.5 million for explosives detection

Hawaii airports get funding to buy bomb-detection equipment
USA Today - USA
... "Screening in Kona is woefully inadequate and that airport has been crying for additional (explosive detection system) machines for the past two years -- thus ...

Newark and JFK to test "puff-detector" for explosives by Reveal Technologies

TSA to test new explosives screening devices
USA Today - USA
At Gulfport-Biloxi, the airport will install the Reveal CT-80 Explosive Detection System, made by Reveal Imaging Technologies of Bedford, Mass. ...

Nuclear false-positive causes police to shut down roadway

Calif. Man Sets Off Nuclear Alert Detector
ABC News - USA
Mar 2, 2005 -- A man who recently had received radiation treatment for a medical condition set off a nuclear alert detector on a fire engine, prompting police ...