The meaning of the U.S. radar deployment in Israel

There are conflicting views about the exact purpose of the recent deployment of a sophisticated U.S. radar system in Israel: Is it part of the anti-Iranian defenses the United States is trying to build in Europe? Would it encourage an Israeli attack against Iran, or discourage such an attack?

DHS, NSF announce $3.1 million awards for radiological detection

DHS and NSF give awards to academic institutions to advance research in radiological and nuclear detection

Nuclear matters
Breakthrough: Radioactive waste may no longer be dangerous to store

Aussie researchers have created a material which has the potential to filter and safely lock away radioactive ions from waste water; nanofibers which are millionths of a millimeter in size could permanently lock away radioactive cations by displacing the existing sodium ions in the fiber

Nuclear matters
Russia to build IAEA-supervised nuclear fuel bank

The nuclear fueled bank would allow countries, including Iran, to develop civilian nuclear power without having to enrich their own uranium, thus allaying fears over nuclear weapons proliferation

Nuclear matters
DSRL in £13 million Dounreay decommissioning contract

Britain's Dounreay fast reactor was proclaimed as “the system of the next century”; this was in the 1960s; the last 15 years have seen the site develop into a nuclear reactor decommissioning project

Briefly noted

DoE's networks open to cyberattacks... WiMax emulator debuts... DHS's radiation program to exceed initial cost estimates...

New nuclear watchdog created

Anti-proliferation activists create the World Institute for Nuclear Security; funded with private and government funds, it will be headquartered in Vienna -- next to the IAEA; it aims to facilitate sharing information to improve security at the world's nuclear sites

Shape of things to come
Seucring airports by reading people's minds (or bodies)

DHS is testing a machine which, from a distance, senses changes in individuals' perspiration, respiration, and heart rate typically associated with anxiety one feels before committing a terrorist act