Bruker Daltonics RAID(TM) Chemical Agent and Toxic Chemical Detectors Receive US Exemption from Radiation Safety Requirements.BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker Daltonics today announces that its RAID[TM] IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. (ion mobility spectrometry) chemical detectors have received an exemption from radiation safety requirements from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. (NRC NRC abbr. 1. National Research Council 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Noun 1. NRC - an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants ). Bruker Daltonics' newest IMS chemical detectors use a very low intensity radiation source in a closed system to ionize i·on·ize v. To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged atoms or radicals. i  on·iz air samples for analysis. Prior generation radiation sources, or other manufacturers' open-inlet IMS systems, have normally required burdensome administrative and management procedures, which are inconvenient, particularly for local first responders. Bruker's unique design and excellent safety record have led the NRC to grant an exempt license for Bruker's latest RAID IMS instruments, which now no longer require any registration, licensing, leak testing, record keeping, special disposal or fees. For customers in civil defense and homeland security this represents a considerable simplification and advantage. Frank Thibodeau, Vice President of Bruker Daltonics NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. Corporation, commented: "This announcement is a further indication as to why our RAID IMS systems are increasingly recognized as the preeminent chemical detectors in the world today, offering excellent detection performance, low false positive rates and the versatility to detect many toxic industrial chemicals or chemical warfare agents. For example, our RAID-M handheld detectors have just been selected for the National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or Civil Support Teams' (CST CST abbr. 1. Central Standard Time 2. convulsive shock treatment CST Central Standard Time Noun 1. ) cutting-edge Analytical Laboratory Systems. Our RAID-Ms will provide real-time chemical screening on site for the CST response mission. RAID-M is becoming the preferred handheld detector for this and many other chemical detection applications worldwide." He continued: "In addition, our new RAID-AFM (Autonomous Facility Monitor) is a novel instrument that can detect and identify up to 20 chemical agents and toxic industrial chemicals. It monitors critical infrastructure on a continuous basis, and is the ideal instrument for early detection of chemical accidents, or attacks against facilities and public buildings." ABOUT BRUKER DALTONICS Bruker Daltonics is a leading developer and provider of innovative life science tools based on mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. and also develops and provides a broad range of field analytical systems for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection. For more information, please visit www.bdal.com |
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