“The Domestic Nuclear Threat Security (DoNuTS) Project”

The DoNuTS project is a five-year, multidisciplinary program which started in 2007 on the Berkeley campus. The objectives of this program are to provide scientific research and trained personnel to assist in the development of a system for detecting and tracking nuclear material which might be involved in acts of terrorism. The program consists of four track areas covering rapidly changing components of the worldwide effort in nuclear material detection: (1) Advanced Materials for Radiation Detection, (2) Data Mining and Pattern Recognition for Detection Systems, (3) Nuclear Data, and (4) Signals and Networks for Detection Systems. Recent developments in research and facilities associated with this project will be highlighted, and future efforts will be described.