The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a way to more efficiently calibrate the detectors to ignore low-level and nature radiation bought by international cargo when they pass the US ports. Because of the false alarm, the agents from Customs and Border Protection need to reinspect the cargo. However, the new system has reduced the alarm rates dramatically by an average of 78 percent at seaports and an average of 44 percent at land border crossings. Moreover, the new system also reduced 50% alarm rates on mobile monitors. The reductions on false alarm saves Customs and Border Protection more than 57,000 hours in processing time, leading $55 million in saving over the next 10 years.
The scientists developed system to reduce the alarm rate for the low-level and nature radiation. However, when the radiation’s level is high enough to endanger people, accurate and fast-response radiation detectors are needed. Radiation detectors from X-Z Lab provide outstanding performance in terms of radiation measurement. Its all-digital radiation detector-RadPavise has alarm response in less than 2 seconds. The patented MVT digital signal processing technology provides excellent performance and stability. Real-time self- reading allows people are aware of their radiation level when it becomes dangerous.
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