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The United States has finished preparation of a high-powered CT scanner to help spot "birth defects".

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced that The United States has finished preparation of a high-powered CT scanner to help spot "birth defects" or signs of deterioration in components of the nation's nuclear warheads.

"In the medical world, someone lays on the table and either the body moves through the scanner or it goes over the person. For us, it's the same kind of thing. We put a component on a table and the table moves through the scanner unit," Geoffrey Beausoleil, the Pantex Plant's deputy site manager.

The system -- developed by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Pantex Plant in Texas -- would generate high-resolution, three-dimensional models of warhead components by assembling numerous cross-sectional X-ray images of the parts. Installation and startup operations for the device at Pantex wrapped up in September.

Source: NTI

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