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U.S. Nuclear Experts Train Kazakhs
Almaty, Kazakhstan (UPI) Jun 21, 2005 U.S. nuclear experts ran a series of radiation security seminars in the Kazakh capital, Almaty, on ways to handle incidents involving radiation materials. Experts from Interpol, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy in cooperation with U.S. and Austrian national laboratories conducted the seminars that were attended by staff from institutes under Kazakhstan's National Nuclear Center and the nuclear industry. "Monitoring of these goods is not a new idea. However, in my view, previously border guards or customs officials did not join their efforts to identify nuclear materials," said Christopher Walker, a foreign affairs specialist at the U.S. Department of Energy. Border incidents have shown specialists have difficulty identifying some materials. "There are over 1,500 items on this list, including nuclear materials, machine tools and equipment with digital program control as well as goods used in the making of weapons of mass destruction," said Yermek Smagulov, the head of the Kazakh Export Control Department at the Customs Control Committee. "Of course, experts need to be able to identify them correctly." The seminars, held during the first two week in June, were designed to train those in the nuclear industry on ways to handle radiation incidents, track down uncontrolled sources of ionizing radiation and identifying dual goods at border custom points. All rights reserved. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
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