Book Review: Radiation protection and measurement issues related to cargo scanning with accelerator-produced high-energy X rays, NCRP Commentary No. 20

Journal Article · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · Radiation Protection Dosimetry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncn287· OSTI ID:1040845

May, Robert

Having spent roughly the first third of his health physics career on the Norfolk, VA waterfront area, the reviewer was excited to see the NCRP Commentary 20, 'Radiation Protection and Measurements Issues Related to Cargo Scanning with Accelerator Technology'. It signals the advent of the Cargo Advanced Automated Radiography System (CAARS). The waterfront is a border that challenges physical security programs and technology. As Commentary 20 provides in the introduction, waterfront cargo terminals and land border crossings together represent over 300 ports of entry in the USA. Every year, the USA receives over 10 million cargo containers from commercial shipping and a roughly equal amount from land border crossings. While rapidly processing containerized cargo, CAARS will be able to detect small quantities of high atomic number radioactive materials and dense shielding materials used for radioactive gamma ray sources and even illicit human cargo - important concerns for homeland security. It will also be able to detect other contraband such as explosives, weapons and drugs. Section 1 of the Commentary presents an executive summary with NCRP's radiation dose management recommendations and related operational recommendations for effective implementation of CAARS technology in the current regulatory environment.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1040845
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACC-08-847; DOE/OR/23177-2159
• Journal Information: Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Journal Name: Radiation Protection Dosimetry Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 132; ISSN RPDODE; ISSN 0144-8420
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
ATOMIC NUMBER
CARGO
CONTAINERS
EXPLOSIVES
IMPLEMENTATION
MANAGEMENT
PROCESSING
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RECOMMENDATIONS
SECURITY
SHIELDING MATERIALS
WEAPONS