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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"nuclear smuggling"”.
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Nuclear Smuggling in a Terrorist Midget Submarine: Impeding the Operation
… examines when and how terrorists, on acquiring a nuclear device, might choose to deliver it against the United States in a midget submarine (or SSM, as the U.S. Navy designates it). If determined nuclear smugglers think the United States will uncover their plan and try to stop them, they will …
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Cooperation among nations: understanding the counter nuclear smuggling network in Europe
… and characterizes a U.S.-centric counter nuclear smuggling network in Europe, and recommends ways to improve its cooperation and effectiveness. The purpose is to provide USSOCOM, NSHQ, and the larger counterproliferation (CP) community with an understanding of how the current network …
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Reconstructing the Atomic Number of Cargo X-ray Images using Dual Energy Radiography
To combat the risk of nuclear smuggling, the U.S. deploys scanning systems at ports of entry. Radiation portal monitors are capable of identifying unshielded nuclear or radiological threats by detecting radiation that is passively being emitted from a container. Radiography systems offer …
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An analytic-deliberative process for the selection and deployment of radiation detection systems for shipping ports and border crossings
Combating the threat of nuclear smuggling through shipping ports and border crossings has been recognized as a national priority in defending the US against nuclear terrorism. In light of the SAFE Port act of 2006, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) has been charged with the …
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A novel low-dose approach to active detection of shielded high-Z materials
… gamma lines produced from low threshold, high-Q nuclear reactions can be used to detect the presence of high-Z material shielded in low- and medium-Z cargo. Specifically, this work establishes a research foundation to inform the eventual development and optimization of a new type of low-dose, …