Franz - RE: X-ray of packages and containers

[David_S_Hyder@RL.GOV]

Franz,

 

You wrote:

"We have the ALARA principle and at least in

Europe we have a legislation, which prohibits the deliberate use of ionizing

radiation on humans for other purposes than medical ones."

The forwarded e-mail to this list yesterday was of an image from Calais.  The last time I looked at a map, France was in Europe.  Would you please explain the "medical application" being used here.  Seems to be a security issue in Europe too.

Thanks Dean,

David Hyder, CHP
(509) 373-9652
David_S_Hyder@rl.gov
Hanford's Facility Evaluation Board

 

-----Original Message-----
From: High Plains Drifter [mailto:magna1@jps.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:03 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: X-ray'ing packages and containers - the extreme

A French customs X-ray reveals smuggled immigrants hiding in the back of a truck entering the port of Calais for passage to Britain. With thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan in anticipation of a US attack, British security is on high alert for illegal immigrants. Checkpoints are using high-tech equipment such as gamma and X-ray scanners, infra-red cameras and sensors capable of detecting even a heartbeat inside a vehicle.

 

"In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."
                                      --Ernest Rutherford

 

Dean Chaney, CHP, IBA (aka High Plains Drifter)
Fairfield, CA
magna1@jps.net