Radiation monitors go up at Los Angeles/Long Beach
The Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach will have complete radiation detection coverage at truck gates by the end of the year, the Department of Homeland Security said.
Customs and Border Protection will install 90 radiation portal monitors to screen container traffic exiting the port. The first three terminals, Pier 400, 300 and Trans Pacific, are scheduled to begin radiation monitoring of all trucks and containers by the end of June.
The deployment does not cover radiation screening of containers that leave the port by rail.
In April, the Port of Oakland became the first seaport in the country to have port-wide radiation detection coverage.