Highlights for 2011

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Press Releases & News Clippings for 2011

LANL Releases

• None

DOE/NNSA Releases

• Safe Removal of Radioactive Sources Makes Way for Next Building Demolition at Portsmouth - Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office Press Release February 2, 2011.
• NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative Moves Used Medical Device from Ft. Hood Hospital - NNSANews March 28, 2011 [YouTube]

Local, National, or International News Clippings

• MEXICO: Little Oversight of Radiation Sources - Inter Press Service News Agency May 13, 2011.
• SCATR Program for Disposition of Unwanted Sources - Health Physics News, Volume XXXIX, December 2011.
• The training courses on the radioactive source recovery and radioactive materials transport were held in Hangzhou - Nuclear and Radiation Safety Centre, Ministry of Env. Protection of the People's Republic of China, April 2011.
• How tough is it to build a dirty bomb? - PBS Newshour February 8, 2011.

Watch the Video

Members of the LANL Off-Site Source Recovery project conduct a field recovery.

• Unwanted and Orphan Sources: Disposition Efforts and Challenges - Radwaste Solutions, May-June 2011.
• Officials train to hunt radioactive material - The National, February 10, 2011 or HTML. Also see video below.
• FANR, United States' NNSA conduct radioactive 'orphan' source detection exercise - Emirates News Agency, February 9, 2011 or HTML.

Government Reports & News

• “Dirty Bombs”: Technical Background, Attack Prevention and Response, Issues for Congress, Jonathan Medalia, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, R41890, June 24, 2011.

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