Bruker Daltonics RAID(TM) Chemical Agent and Toxic Chemical Detectors Receive US Exemption From Radiation Safety Requirements
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Bruker Daltonics today announces that its RAID&#8482;  IMS (ion mobility spectrometry) chemical detectors have received an  exemption from radiation safety requirements from the US Nuclear  Regulatory Commission (NRC).
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The Food and Drug Administration says a rocket fuel component contaminates nearly 94 percent of the milk and lettuce samples surveyed. The compound is suspected of having nasty effects in humans. By Amit Asaravala.
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CHERBOURG, France : A ship carrying 140 kilograms (308 pounds) of deadly plutonium from weapons arsenals in the United States docked in the French port of Cherbourg, the Areva nuclear processing company announced.
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By Levine, Art  Lax security at our nation's chemical plants may endanger the millions of Americans unlucky enough to live near them, but it's been a boon for investigative journalism.
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American Electrical Testing Co. of Canton has until about Sept. 10 to contest a $4,900 fine levied by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration for "serious" safety violations that the agency says caused an underground explosion and killed an electrician on Feb. 21 in Waterbury, Conn. The company had been hired by Connecticut Light &amp; Power to do maintenance ...
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec. 16--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered FMC Idaho  LLC, a former elemental phosphorous manufacturer in Pocatello, to install a  gas treatment system to reduce phosphine and other gases to safe levels in one  of the company's ponds.
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The chemical compound, known as TCDD, the world&#39;s most powerful dioxin, was a key part of Agent Orange, used by the United States to clear the Vietnamese jungle, and which left widespread
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Patients treated with radioactive  material face an increased risk of triggering security alarms  because more guards are being equipped with sensitive radiation  detectors, a report said Tuesday.
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A large portion of the United States&#39; milk and lettuce supply may be contaminated with potentially unsafe levels of a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel, according to data released by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional...
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The United States will remove from military stockpiles nine tonnes of plutonium, enough for more than 1,000 atom bombs, to demonstrate its commitment to non-proliferation, the U.S. energy secretary said on Monday.
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By AP  TULALIP   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has halted excavation at an old chemical weapons storage site on the Tulalip Indian Reservation after four workers reportedly suffered effects from mustard gas buried there 60 years ago.   The four were briefly hospitalized Aug.
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The government has increased monitoring to prevent raw materials and components for weapons from flowing into North Korea. The measures have been taken as part of South Korean exports of sodium
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cannot independently verify that every nuclear power plant is taking required safeguards to protect
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By Bill Graham, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 25--Explosions and a fire Sunday at a chemical plant in Richmond left no air pollution problems that could harm residents or firefighters, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency said today.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recently informed Assure Controls, Inc. that their company's patented QwikLite(TM) technology was added to the list of technical descriptions listed in the EPA Technology Innovation Program.
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Indonesia prepares law to prohibit the use of chemicals as weapons    JAKARTA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government is preparing a draft law to prohibit the use of chemicals as weapons, Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said here Wednesday.