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Homeland Security

Valley Forge, LLNL, Russian Institutes Complete Work on Explosives Detection

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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

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Valley Force Composite Technologies [VLYF], Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Russia's P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute have completed a collaborative Department of Energy Global Initiative for Proliferation Prevention project for airline baggage and cargo explosives detection. Valley Forge says that technical objectives of the project included the development and automation of the accelerator-detector complex for high efficiency detection of hidden explosives. The cooperative research and development agreement project was intended to address the objectives of the Border and Transportation Security…

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