Experts say U.S. nuke cargo scan rules "unworkable"
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New rules that will require the scanning of all cargo containers imported to the United States, a move to stop nuclear weapons being shipped in, are expensive, unnecessary and misguided, industry and security experts said.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 13--Three top Dallas officials said Tuesday that they were unaware a ban on hazardous-material haulers using the downtown freeway system was not being enforced, but they vowed to take immediate steps to correct the situation.
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French ban Calais lorry probes The French have banned Brit border guards at Calais from deploying immigrant-hunting gamma-ray scanners, claiming they breach EU health and safety regulations and can only be used with the intended targets' written permission.â¦
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X-ray machines that screen airline passengers' shoes cannot detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening.
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All U.S.-bound cargo would have to   be scanned for nuclear materials while still abroad under a   proposal that Democrats urged the Senate on Tuesday to pass to   protect American ports five years after the September 11   attacks.
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NEW YORK  - Outpatient clinics that perform diagnostic procedures using radioactive materials could do a better job of telling patients that they may set off radiation detectors at security checkpoints, a study shows.
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The chief U.N. nuclear inspector said Monday his agency cannot be sure if Iran's nuclear activities are a cover for a weapons program
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U.S. airlines are vulnerable to the  same kind of mid-air bombings that apparently blew up two  Russian planes because most travelers are not screened for  explosives, industry experts and officials said on Tuesday.
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PARIS -- A controversial US shipment of bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has set sail for France, despite protests from environmental activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident. The shipment is the most contentious nuclear shipment in years with activists questioning the wisdom of transporting such security-sensitive cargo at a time of heightened risk of terror ...
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The U.S. government should replace more than 1,000 irradiation machines used in hospitals and research facilities because terrorists could use the radioactive materials inside them to make "dirty" bombs, a government advisory panel has concluded.
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US-bound air passengers may have to board their planes an hour before takeoff to allow for more rigorous security checks, according to proposals outlined yesterday by a senior US official.
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A federal advisory panel has recommended that former workers at a nuclear weapons plant be denied immediate government compensation.
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The U.S. government is sending a team of 20 scientists to check out a report of unusual radiation readings that could be coming from a hydrogen bomb that was lost off the Georgia coast in 1958.
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In the weeks before key government tests of new radiation detection equipment, officials at the Department of Homeland Security helped contractors through repeated dry runs that enabled them to perform better during the examinations, according to government briefing documents obtained by The...
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Britain's stocks of plutonium are kept in 'unacceptable' conditions, experts warn today.
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A federal program to control radiological material that could be used to make dirty bombs has yet to secure many of the world's most dangerous sites, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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A report concludes two computer disks that disappeared &#151; prompting a virtual shutdown at one of the nation's leading nuclear weapons laboratories &#151; never existed.