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Nuke Agency’s Rad Scanning Crew Again to Rack Up Yardage in Sky Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

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Nuke Agency’s Rad Scanning Crew Again to Rack Up Yardage in Sky Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

COVID-19 is not stopping Super Bowl 55, nor stopping the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) annual sweep of background radiation levels at the site of the big game ahead of the coin toss. The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency will again dispatch its Nuclear Emergency Support Team’s Bell [TXT] 412 helicopter, equipped with passive radiation sensing technology, to map out radiation levels around Tampa, Fla., and Raymond James Stadium. The helicopter, based out of Joint Base Andrews in…

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