Re: X-ray'ing packages and containers - the extreme

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Dep. I/8U, Radiation Protection

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Westerdale, Bob <bwesterdale@edax.com>

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; 'Franz

Schoenhofer' <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>; David_S_Hyder@RL.GOV

<David_S_Hyder@RL.GOV>; magna1@jps.net <magna1@jps.net>

Datum: Donnerstag, 27. September 2001 23:09

Betreff: FW: X-ray'ing packages and containers - the extreme











>certainly within range of the average industrial radiography source.  It

may

>seem hard to believe,  this picture is an X-Ray!

>



Dear Bob,



I am grateful for your very comprehensive explanation. I am certainly not

aware of the latest developments and I am certainly not an expert in such

matters. I only can refer to legislation, which at least in my country

forbid any use of ionizing radiation on human beings for other purposes than

medical ones.



We have seen similar pictures in our mass media during the last weeks

referring to infrared picturing as the source and to the "tunnel". This led

me to the postulation that they were IR pictures. In Austria to my knowledge

there are used detectors for carbon dioxide exhaled by illegal immigrants on

lorries or railway waggons.



I will take this discussion as a reason to check the legal situation in the

European Union. For Austria I think I know it.



Thank you once again!



Franz











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