UNDT IS NEEDED!!!!!! March 8, 2012 - Marketwire - Universal Detection Technology Unveils the Smartphone Application for Its RadSmart Radiation Detection Device - Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, announced today that that it has unveiled the first generation smartphone application for its RadSmart Device. The RadSmart is designed to detect radiation levels on surfaces and in food and to automatically send the collected data to a smartphone. RadSmart is being developed in collaboration with Honeywell India (a unit of Honeywell International) and marketed by UNDT, under its brand. RadSmart will utilize a Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillator for the detection of Gamma rays. (CsI) scintillators are the most sensitive detection mechanisms for detecting Gamma radiation. RadSmart will be sensitive enough to measure normal radiation levels to 100 to 200 times that intensity. With the planned detection range of 0.001 to 9.999 µSv/h the device is expected to be capable of detecting traces of radiation on surfaces, clothing and, in particular, food contamination. The smartphone application will give the user the ability to choose to utilize the device for detecting contamination in food or on surfaces, log the readings and share the accumulated readings with other users and databases through its social networking features. The application has been designed with the everyday user in mind with easily navigable menu options and options for sharing the data through Facebook, Twitter and radiation mapping databases
March 12, 2012 - BPB - County Seeks Help With Contamination - Development officials in Middle Georgia are racing to finish a grant application by April. The Middle Georgia Regional Commission is trying to help homeowners whose water might be making them sick. Recent testing found some residents of Monroe County have unusually high levels of uranium and radon in their wells. The Commission is applying for a federal block grant to help get the residents off wells and hooked up to public water lines. The Commission’s Chan Layson says residents might not be eligible for help from the 8 million dollar project because their incomes are above federal limits. "We have to make a really strong case that, Hey you have an emergency out here. This is a, this is basically a state of emergency is the application that I’m trying to put forth." The state is in the middle of surveying Monroe County residents about their health. Uranium in water can cause kidney problems and radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer.
March 12, 2012 - Reuters - IAEA chief doesn't rule out Iran "cleaning" army site - The U.N. nuclear watchdog does not rule out that Iran may be trying to remove evidence from a military site that inspectors want to visit as part of an inquiry into suspected research relevant to atomic bombs, the agency's chief said. Yukiya Amano's comments, in an interview with Reuters, came a day after six world powers demanded Iran keep its promise to let international inspectors visit the Parchin military complex. Their joint call demonstrated firmer resolve among the powers on Iran before a planned revival of high-level talks, as well as widening disquiet about the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions, with Israel threatening last-ditch military action, Reuters reports. Iran refused access to Parchin, southeast of Tehran, during two rounds of talks with a senior team of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. agency dedicated to stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, in Tehran this year. Western diplomats say Iran may be delaying inspectors' access to the site to give it time to sanitize the facility of any incriminating evidence of explosives tests that would indicate efforts to design nuclear weapons. "We have information that some activity is ongoing there," Amano, IAEA director general, said at agency headquarters.
March 12, 2012 - Adelaide Now - Radioactive waste on its way - A bill that could open up the state's highways to truckloads of radioactive waste is expected to pass Federal Parliament this week. Languishing in the Senate for more than a year, the Bill greenlights the building of a single waste dump for the nation's low-level and intermediate-level waste - but only on land volunteered by its owner. An Aboriginal-owned station in the Northern Territory has been volunteered by its community as the site for the dump, though a breakaway group is opposing the nomination in the Federal Court. If the waste goes to the site - Muckaty Station, near Tennant Creek - it is likely to be shipped through SA, including the Riverland and city. But the Federal Government says if the legal challenge is upheld, the selection process will be open, with communities across the nation called on to nominate sites. The report advised sending waste through SA to the NT "would avoid the emotive movement of waste through the Blue Mountains".