LOCH news ! .048 x.049 *** Tuesday June 1, 2:07 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Loch Harris, Inc.
Loch Harris' ChemTech Physicist to Address Nuclear Conference
AUSTIN, Texas, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- In the aftermath of agreements
forged with the Ruder Boskovic Institute and the Croatian Mine Action
Centre (CROMAC) in Croatia last week, officials of Loch Harris, Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: LOCH - news) have become last-minute insertions in
a prestigious international nuclear conference, according to Loch Harris
CEO Rodney A. Boone.
''The 6th International Conference on Applications of Nuclear
Techniques, to be held on the island of Crete, Greece June 20-26, was
closed,'' said Boone. ''But Croatian officials who were prominent
participants insisted on inviting a paper from Dr. Henry Blair, noted
physicist for Chemical Detection Technologies, Inc. (ChemTech), into the
program.
Blair's topic, ''A Man Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Based Landmine
Detection and Location System,'' will discuss the scientific basis
behind ChemTech's ELF landmine detection system and hint at its use in
other applications.
Boone has also been invited by Dr. Vlado Valkovic, professor of physics
and head of Ruder Boskovic Institute's Applied Physics Laboratory, to be
co- author of his opening overview, ''Humanitarian Demining: A Global
Problem.''
ChemTech, a subsidiary of Loch Harris, is owner and developer of the ELF
technology, an X-ray-based system for detection and location of
landmines. ChemTech recently announced an agreement to collaborate with
Croatia's Ruder Boskovic Institute in field testing the ELF system in
what Boone termed the ''real, live laboratory of one of the worst
landmine-polluted nations on earth.''
''Over ten percent of the land area of Croatia has been rendered useless
by an estimated 1.2 million undocumented landmines,'' said Boone. ''Our
task is to help them clear the equivalent of a one-mile wide path from
Washington, DC to the Pacific Ocean.''
The 6th International Conference on Applications of Nuclear Techniques
is under the auspices of The Office Of National Drug Control Policy --
The White House, NCSR Demokritos, and Western Kentucky University.
Additional information about the program may be found on the Western
Kentucky University Web site, wku.edu, or on the
Loch Harris Web site, lochharris.com.
SOURCE: Loch Harris, Inc. |
