Stanley G. Prussin

Stan PrussinProfessor, University of California

We cannot let the shape of our noses, the color of our skin, or the faith we practice, mark us as fundamentally different from anyone else.We cannot commit the same, ignorant discriminations of the past.

We are brothers.
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"You can irradiate this cargo and not worry about the radiation at all and -- bingo -- seconds later see this stuff," said Stanley G. Prussin, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Berkeley's Prussin says the "carwash" probably would be designed with shielding so port workers and federal agents would not receive a significant dose of radiation while scanning cargo.

"The amount of material that you need to create a weapon is about the size of a softball," said UC Berkeley nuclear engineering professor Stanley Prussin."The problem we're trying to solve is how to find that inside a 20- to 40-foot long container."

Prussin said the potential damage of just a small atomic blast could be devastating.

"Consider what could happen in the aftermath with the country," Prussin said."It has the potential of tearing apart the country."

In the past, security experts have tried to tackle the problem with traditional X-ray machines, but cargos are too dense and atomic particles could evade detection, Prussin said.
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Prussin said although this new method to detect atomic particles is not the only way to sense an atomic bomb, it is the only current practical and cheap way that can be reproduced at a large scale.
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Prussin said having at least two scanners at most ports could be a reality by 2007.

Stanley G. Prussin

University of California-Davis

"You can irradiate this cargo and not worry about the radiation at all and -- bingo -- seconds later see this stuff," said Stanley G. Prussin, a nuclear engineering professor at University of California, Berkeley.
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Berkeley's Prussin says the "carwash" probably would be designed with shielding so port workers and federal agents would not receive a significant dose of radiation while scanning cargo.

That's because of the cargo containers' sheer mass: they weigh up to 27 tons, says Stan Prussin, an applied nuclear chemist at UC Berkeley and a central participant in the Livermore project.

That's because of the cargo containers' sheer mass: they weigh up to 27 tons, says Stan Prussin, an applied nuclear chemist who's central to the project.

"You can irradiate this cargo and not worry about the radiation at all and -- bingo -- seconds later see this stuff," said Stanley Prussin, a nuclear engineering professor at University of California, Berkeley.
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Prussin says the "carwash" probably would be designed with shielding so port workers and federal agents would not receive a significant dose of radiation while scanning cargo.

The containers can weigh up to 27 tons, said Stan Prussin, an applied nuclear chemist at UC Berkeley and part of the Livermore project.