U.S., Ukraine Sign Radiation Detector Agreement

The United States and the Ukraine have signed an agreement to install radiation detection equipment at key Ukrainian border crossings, airports and seaports, the U.S. Energy Department announced Friday (see GSN, April 22).

National Nuclear Security Administration chief Linton Brooks and Col.-Gen. Mykola Lytvyn, chairman of the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, signed the agreement Friday under the U.S. Second Line of Defense Program, designed to interdict illicit nuclear and radioactive material.

“This agreement will enable our countries to further international nonproliferation efforts and better protect the citizens of Ukraine, the United States and other countries against nuclear terrorism,” Brooks said in a statement (National Nuclear Security Administration release, April 22).

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