Articles under section " Focus: Non-Intrusive Inspection "

What is to be done when non-intrusive inspection (NII) equipment has reached the end of its life? In this article, we asked Customs administrations and manufacturers how they manage the decommissioning of NII systems. The average operating life of conventional imaging equipment is estimated to be ...

Some legislation may provide that obsolete scanning equipment should still be treated as government property or be sold by public auction. As a result of the public auction, the equipment moves into the hands of a public or private company. Here again, the equipment manufacturer should be offered th...

In Uganda The Customs Department of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) initiates the decommissioning process through its Procurement and Disposal Unit, and must inform the Uganda Atomic Energy Council in writing of its intention to dispose of radiation generators or accelerators and obtain its app...

The implementation of X-ray machines to support security screening was introduced approximately 50 years ago to accelerate the process of baggage inspection. Equipment was then developed to enable the non-intrusive inspection of vehicles, containers and trains. Today’s X-ray systems produce a str...

When an object is X-rayed, some of the X-rays are absorbed by the object, whereas other X-rays pass straight through it. It is therefore the density and thickness of the materials that affect how easily X-rays pass through objects. The lower the density of a material, the more transparent the materi...