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QinetiQ Teams with VeriTainer on Crane-Mounted Rad Detector

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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

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QinetiQ North America (QNA) has partnered with VeriTainer Corp., a small research and development firm that has developed and tested a radiation detection system that can be integrated on dockside cranes that load and unload shipping containers, to offer the radiation detection system to customers in the U.S. and elsewhere. QNA is the U.S.-based division of Britain's QinetiQ. VeriTainer's VeriSpreader completed a second phase of self-funded tests this spring at the Port of Oakland, Calif., successfully scanning 30,000 containers, John…

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