VeriTainer, the developer of a crane-based radiation detection system called VeriSpreader, is partnering with Erudite, Inc., a developer of an acoustic-based Non-Intrusive Imaging technology, to integrate the two technologies to detect nuclear shielding materials hidden in cargo containers. The partnership is exclusive. “Erudite’s Synchronous Vibrational Cargo Imaging (SVCI) technology will be seamlessly integrated into the VeriSpreader system, the only field-tested solution of its kind, allowing for a clear and redundant confirmation of whether a container has nuclear materials inside,” says Dr. Les Atlas, an acoustics authority, inventor of SVCI and professor at the Univ. of Washington. “SVCI acoustic technology, when fully deployed, will be able to create a footprint of the materials contained within a container. In addition to shielding determination, this may permit us to compare the container’s contents to the shipping manifest and determine wither unauthorized materials are on board.” The SVCI imaging technique uses safe, non- ionizing, acoustic energy to find high density materials. While both companies have been testing their respective technologies independently, VeriTainer tells TR2 it “looks forward to testing the combined solution in the very near term.”