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Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Challenges Facing U.S. Efforts to Deploy Radiation Detection Equipment in Other Countries and in the United States

GAO-06-558T Published: Mar 28, 2006. Publicly Released: Mar 28, 2006.
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GAO is releasing two reports today on U.S. efforts to combat nuclear smuggling in foreign countries and in the United States. Together with the March 2005 report on the Department of Energy's Megaports Initiative, these reports represent GAO's analysis of the U.S. effort to deploy radiation detection equipment worldwide. In my testimony, I will discuss (1) the progress made and challenges faced by the Departments of Energy (DOE), Defense (DOD), and State in providing radiation detection equipment to foreign countries and (2) the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) efforts to install radiation detection equipment at U.S. ports of entry and challenges it faces.

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Border securityCargo securityCost effectiveness analysisCost overrunsCounterterrorismDirty bombsEquipment managementHazardous substancesHomeland securityInspectionInteragency relationsNuclear proliferationNuclear weaponsOperational testingProgram evaluationRadiation monitoringSchedule slippagesSmugglingStrategic planning