A Department of Homeland Security office has awarded $113 million in contracts for "next-generation" hand-held or wearable radiation detection equipment that could help identify attempts to smuggle fissile material into the United States, DHS announced this week. These "human-portable radiation detection systems," or HPRDS, would be available to agents at U.S. ports to find out if any incoming containers carry bombs or the radioactive ingredients needed to make them, according to an Oct. 25 DHS statement. DHS' Domestic Nuclear Detection...
