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SUMMARY:National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
 Speaker name: Mark Stoyer\n
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 Speaker Institution: 
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\n
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 Title: 
 Protecting America's Borders: National 
 Nuclear Security Technology\n
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 Abstract: Currently, 
 about 25 million cargo shipping containers 
 enter the US every year compared with 
 ~100 million international travelers at airports. 
 These containers have a wide variety of 
 cargo packed in a wide variety of configurations. 
 As the Homeland Security website states 
 The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. 
 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is charged 
 with the critical task of securing the 
 country from terrorists and their weapons while 
 facilitating legitimate trade and travel, 
 including the monitoring of what's in thousands 
 of sea cargo containers as they pass through 
 CBP screening. These containers must be inspected 
 quickly and accurately, and without the 
 business at each port grinding to a halt when 
 they do so. This talk will primarily focus 
 on some of the technologies used to screen 
 these containers for illicit materials, including 
 a discussion of where applied nuclear physics 
 is extremely important. This work has been 
 supported by the US Department of Homeland 
 Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, 
 under competitively awarded contract/IAA HSHQDC-12-X-00341. 
 This support does not constitute 
 an express or implied endorsement on the 
 part of the Government. This work performed 
 under the auspices of the U.S. Department of 
 Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
 under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.nscl.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-9671\n
 Contact email: nscl.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.nscl.msu.edu/apps/seminars.php\n
LOCATION:National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar Room
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