nuclear-news

BRIEF: Phoenix Nuclear Labs gets 2 Army contracts

Oct 23, 2012 (Menafn – The Wisconsin State Journal – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –Phoenix Nuclear Labs, Monona, has received two contracts with the Army, totaling nearly 1 million.

An 879,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant will help Phoenix develop and build a high flux neutron generator to detect improvised explosive devices. Homemade explosives are often made with little metal, which makes them harder to detect, said Evan Sengbusch, vice president for business development. He said Phoenix’s product will sense the explosive itself.

“It will be able to look ahead of a convoy and set off an alert on time to stop the convoy,” he said.

A separate, 100,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant will help the company design a neutron source for the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It is aimed at testing electronic components to see if they could withstand the radiation of space or other military applications, without using highly enriched uranium to simulate those environments.

Founded in 2005, Phoenix has 12 employees, Sengbusch said, and expects to add one or two more over the next six months.

___ (c)2012 The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.) Visit The Wisconsin
State Journal (Madison, Wis.) at www.wisconsinstatejournal.com Distributed by
MCT Information Services

Copyright (C) 2012, The Wisconsin State Journal

http://www.menafn.com/menafn/942da5f0-2470-4901-a14c-e10368ea1618/BRIEF-Phoenix-Nuclear-Labs-gets-2-Army-contracts?src=main