China Purchases Radiation Sensors for Olympics

China has completed a $2.5 million purchase of portable radiation sensor devices to safeguard against radiological “dirty bomb” attacks at next month’s Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, the U.S. contractor ICx Technologies announced Tuesday (see GSN, July 11).

The firm has provided its handheld identiFINDER radioisotope detection gear to support security efforts at the Olympics, which is set to begin Aug. 8.

"We are proud to have our market-leading spectroscopic radiation detectors again being used at such a critical event," Juergen Stein, ICx Radiation president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. 

"ICx also supported the 2004 Olympics through the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, and we provided security at the 2006 FIFA World Cup," Stein added (ICx release, July 15).

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