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Chinese security scanners detect TATP

Xinhua, April 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Chinese company is ready to market new security scanners which can detect triacetone triperoxide (TATP), the explosive used by terrorists in the Paris attacks.

An article published in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry on March 31 said the scanner can detect the explosives including TATP and hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD), commonly used in suicide bombings but undetectable by conventional security scanners.

Dalian Ruptech Co. Ltd. bought the patent for 20 million yuan (3 million U.S. dollars) from the developer -- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and plans to manufacture 800 to 1,000 scanners each year.

The explosives TATP and HMTD were used in both the Belgium bombings in March and the Paris attacks in 2015. The explosives can be simply synthesized, and materials for making them are easily obtained. Since the explosives contain no nitro groups, they are difficult to detected using current security scanners. Endi