Defeating nuclear threats

In the years since the end of the Cold War, fear of terrorist attacks with radiological weapons spurred Radiation Portal Monitor deployment for cargo scanning all over the world. For years, radiation screening was frequently segregated from traditional cargo screening, which aims to detect contraband, drugs, weapons and conventional explosives. Nowadays, advances in both forms of screening technologies have made it possible to integrate checkpoints for nuclear bombs and other radioactive material – commonly called “rad-nuke” detection – and traditional x-ray screening technologies.