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NRC Expands Radioactive Source Tracking System

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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By George Lobsenz The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), substantially expanding a key anti-terrorism initiative, announced Tuesday a plan to nearly quadruple the number of companies, hospitals and other users of nuclear materials that will have to report into a national tracking system for radioactive source devices widely used in industry, academia and medicine. The agency, moving to address concerns that such devices could provide raw material for radioactive "dirty" bombs, said it was expanding the tracking system to cover so-called…

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