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Effects of nuke detector work crystal clear; Two firms' collaborative efforts in $1.4 billion Homeland Security project to net hundreds of jobs.(News)
Crain's Cleveland Business, November, 2006 by Bennett, David
Byline: DAVID BENNETT Two local producers of sensitive-materials detection equipment are moving ahead with a homeland security program that is designed to stop nuclear threats at the nation's borders and stands to create hundreds of high-paying technical jobs at both companies. Tucked away in bucolic Newbury Township in Geauga County, workers at Saint-Gobain Crystals are producing sophisticated detectors intended to help identify illicit nuclear material hidden in cargo containers.
They are doing so under a $2.1 million contract - the first of several renewable contracts - to provide sodium iodide scintillation detectors. In neighboring Cuyahoga County, Thermo Electron Corp. is building an 80,000-square-foot plant near its operation on Broadway Avenue in...
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