U.S. Customs installs radiation portal monitors at Jersey City terminal

U.S. Customs installs radiation portal monitors at Jersey City terminal    The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection has deployed radiation portal monitors at the Global Marine Terminal in Jersey City, N.J., the first in a series of installations at U.S. seaports.
   The yellow-framed portal monitors are part of a “layered enforcement strategy,” U.S. Customs said in a statement, that includes “large-scale, non-intrusive inspection technology, X-ray-type machines than can scan an entire sea container in two to three minutes, personal radiation detection devices, and radiation isotope identifiers that can pinpoint the source and nature of radiation.”
   “The recent terrorist attacks in Madrid drive home the increased need to secure our borders against terrorist penetration. The new highly sophisticated radiation detection devices U.S. Customs and Border Protection is deploying in our seaports are a major step in ensuring that our border and our country are more secure,” U.S. Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner said in a ceremony at the Jersey City terminal Monday.