New York Post - PORT GETS SUPER NUKE DETECTOR

Friday August 25, 2006

From New York Post:

PORT GETS SUPER NUKE DETECTOR

By HEIDI SINGER

August 25, 2006 -- The world's most advanced nuclear scanner is now helping to safeguard New York City - inspecting up to 6,000 containers of overseas goods that pass through a busy Staten Island port every day.

Officials have installed a tester version of the much-anticipated dirty-bomb detector at a checkpoint in the New York Container Terminal, at the foot of the Goethals Bridge.

"This is the final layer of protection," said Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, after a port visit yesterday. "I was very reassured."

The full system should be in place in coming months.

Right now, every container goes through dirty-bomb scanning, said officials. But the current generation of equipment can't always tell the difference between products like cat litter, which gives off small amounts of harmless radiation, and weapons of mass destruction.