VeriTainer in deal with Lawrence Livermore

VeriTainer in deal with Lawrence Livermore    VeriTainer Corp. has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to refine and enhance VeriTainer's technology for scanning cargo containers with crane-mounted devices.
   The government will provide $4 million in funding over three-and-a-half years to improve gamma and neutron detection.
St. Helena, Calif.-based VeriTainer has been field testing its system in the past four years at three port and in five different terminals.
   The agreement is “a big step forward for our firm, the crane-mounted scanning technology and the overall security of the global supply chain,' said John Alioto, chief executive officer of VeriTainer. 'Together, we will optimize the existing technology.”
   Steven Kreek, leader of the Livermore lab’s Nuclear Detection and Countermeasures Research Program, said the VeraTainer technology “occupies a unique security niche in that it will be used to scan cargo that is passed between ships, known as transshipment, that doesn't actually enter a country until reaching its final destination. This technology will help ensure that cargo containers are not used for transporting radiological or nuclear threats.'