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In FY 2012, the SLD Core program plans to install radiation detection equipment at an additional
30 foreign sites in Estonia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan,
Poland, Mongolia, Croatia, and Mexico, increasing the total non-Megaport sites with completed
installations to 450. Training will be provided in equipment maintenance and alarm response to law
enforcement personnel in these countries. The SLD Core program plans to continue to provide
mobile detection and stationary detection capability at points internal to borders of countries of
strategic interest. The SLD Core program provides sustainability support in the form of
maintenance and/or repair of equipment, training, and/or technical collaboration and support for
radiation detection systems at approximately 400 sites in countries where the SLD Core Program
has installed such equipment, including Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Austria, Estonia, Greece,
Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Turkmenistan, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Romania, Georgia, and Ukraine. Additionally, the program will continue to maintain equipment
installed by the U.S. Department of Defense in Uzbekistan. In addition to ongoing activities to
implement the SLD Core program in countries of strategic importance, efforts to deploy radiation
detection technologies at key land border crossings, airports, and seaports in support of various
United Nations Security Council Resolutions will continue.
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The SLD Megaports Initiative is pursuing cooperation with international partners to deploy and
equip key ports with radiation detection equipment and to provide training to appropriate law
enforcement officials, in order to provide the technical means to detect, deter, and interdict illicit
trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials. The ports of interest to NNSA have been
identified based upon a risk-based approach to guide implementation priorities considering
factors such as container volume to the U.S., routing criteria, regional threat, strategic location, and
traffic flow characteristics to guide the implementation priorities.
This program is closely coordinated with, and complements the Department of Homeland Security’s
(DHS) Bureau of Customs and Border Protection’s Container Security Initiative (CSI) with DHS’s
Secure Freight Initiative (SFI), introduced on December 7, 2006. NNSA efforts under the
Megaports Initiative also support implementation of new requirements in the "Implementing
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007," which call for the integrated scanning of
100 percent of U.S.-bound container cargo at foreign seaports. The Megaports program is also
planning to provide a single radiation portal monitor (RPM) in close proximity to the non-intrusive
imaging (NII) system at CSI ports to allow for the integration of RPM alarm data with the NII
images.
By adding radiation detection capabilities at seaports, NNSA will be able to screen container cargo
for nuclear and radioactive materials that could be used in a weapon of mass destruction or a
radiological dispersal device (RDD) (dirty bomb) against the U.S., the host country, and/or our
allies. Under SFI, NNSA will continue to work with DHS to provide the integrated scanning of
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