Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, has received and fulfilled a contract with the Beijing Organizing Committee to provide radiation detection equipment for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The Beijing Organizing Committee is responsible for all aspects of security for the games.
Universal Detection’s bioterrorism detection devices are ideally suited for first responders, border control, Customs inspectors, site security in critical infrastructures, and all missions related to the control of nuclear materials, including the Olympic Park.
Universal Detection has supplied equipment that will be used for the search and identification of gamma and neutron radioactive materials. The devices are designed to provide portal protection and have been delivered to Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games.
Security is essential for the games, as we can see in the number of personnel that the Organizing Committee intends to put out, including deployment of 80,000 security personnel. According to Liu Shaowu, the committee’s security department director, “BOCOG has finished more than 52 schemes and more than 500 specific plans for security, transportation, fire-fighting, anti-terrorism and VIP protection. Beijing will host safe Games.”
Universal Detections’ devices will also be a welcome addition because their high sensitivity can be used to verify any alarm triggered by a fix-installed monitor or by a radiation pager, to locate sources, measure radiation levels, and even to identify the detected isotope.
Jacques Tizabi, Universal Detection’s Chief Executive Office also stated, “The fulfillment of this contract for the Beijing Olympics is another significant milestone for our company. We will continue to pursue clients of this caliber and prestige with our full spectrum of CBRNE detection equipment.”
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