Berkeley Nucleonics radiation portal handles moving vehicles with ease

Published 18 December 2006

Unlike its competitors, the Flexible Illicit Nuclear Detection system can detect dirty bombs in moving traffic; system adaptable for mail parcel facilities, bulk cargo, and small water-borne vessels

When Congress recently mandated that all cargo coming into the United States be screened for radiation, it was supposed that portal systems would be used. Although there is much debate about their effectiveness in preventing dirty bomb attacks, few disagree that they are time-consumptive and therefore expensive for the trucking and shipping industry. San Rafael, California-based Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation (BNC) believes it has found a solution. Unlike its competitors’, BNC’s Flexible Illicit Nuclear Detection (FIND) portal can detect radiation in moving vehicles.

The word ‘flexible’ is key. FIND can be deployed at checkpoints, wet ports, and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as monitor highway-speed vehicle traffic, mail parcel facilities, bulk cargo, small water-borne vessels, and vehicles moving through roadside checkpoints. It can even be configured as a discreet fixed mounted detection system to monitor slow moving packages, luggage, pedestrians, or can quietly monitor the lobby of a building. For those concerned about ruggedness, the system’s electronics are housed in weatherproof, EMI/RFI resistant enclosures.

-read more in this company news release