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Re: X-ray of packages and containers-image source



A quick search on the internet produced the following result.



09.03.2001 Heimann Systems delivers HM Customs & Excise, United Kingdom two

new HCV-Mobile Systems

Heimann Systems has just delivered a second mobile scanning system to United

Kingdom HM Customs & Excise, to be used at the port of Southampton. A first

system was delivered in January and is currently in operation at the British

Port of Felixstowe. Recently, the British Government saw the first hefty

return from the very latest Heimann Systems X-Ray technology when Customs

discovered a 6 million cigarettes contraband further to an X-ray scan on a

container at Felixstowe. Heimann Systems HCV-Mobile system is currently the

only system in the world, which combines full mobility and exceptional

performance. It is also the only mobile system capable of providing manifest

verification at key locations such as seaports. The system's high

penetration capability enables the HCV-Mobile to scan fully-loaded

containers and to give a high resolution X-Ray image, comparable to that

obtained from Heimann Systems larger and more powerful stationary systems.



 I haven't bothered to look further but for those that are interested the

web address for the company is as follows : www.heimannsystems.com



Dredging my memory, having lived in the south east of the UK around the time

of the opening of the channel tunnel, X-rays have been used since the tunnel

first entered operation.  However their purpose was and still is not to

detect illegal immigrants, but contraband e.g. alcohol, cigarettes and

illegal drugs.  I understood at the time that the vehicle would be checked

visually before it was inspected using x-rays.  One of the reasons given was

to prevent inadvertant exposure of people.  I have to be cautious and note

that the last paragraph is only my recollection of news reports at the time,

but having an interest in Radiation Protection I did take a great deal of

interest in what was said.



Regards

    Julian Ginniver

----- Original Message -----

From: "Chuck Cooper" <ccc@pp.pdx.edu>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 4:04 AM

Subject: X-ray of packages and containers-image source





> The image that started this thread appears to be from a Rapiscan 2000

series

> high energy

> transmission X-ray unit, one of the few production systems capable of

> processing truck

> size cargos.

>

> See the remarkably similar image here:

>

> http://www.rapiscan.com/documents/Fixed%20Site%20Cargo%20System.htm

>

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