The radioactive sources, large and small, used in many industries worldwide. Some of these sources fall through the cracks of the applications of radiation to which they belong and are misplaced or lost. Since their appearance often gives away what it really is, these sources often have their way into yards. Many recycling steel scrap yards of them from casting and roll the helm of various sheet metal products. If the steel factory will merge one of these sources, the products they produce will be contaminated. If the source is large, or if there are multiple sources, this could pose a serious risk to public health.
To reduce the risk of receiving radioactive materials from the suppliers of waste, many mills have implemented hardware detection of radiation at the ports of their property. These detectors are often large plastic scintillators designed to detect gamma radiation emitted from the source. These systems usually consist of several sensors and a control unit which is controlled by an operator in the gatehouse. Although these screens well designed road is always very difficult to detect a source in a load of waste. Often these sources are encapsulated in some form of shielding and complicate further and scrap the sides of container as the act as shielding.
Port monitors are the first lines of defense for steel mills. Many of them are controlled by others to cranes that pick up waste load on trucks and cars take to the scrap mill. Also, inside the crane loading scrap charging buckets, which are then dumped in the oven to melt scrap metal from an alternative system of radiation detection. If a radiation source in steel at the time, this is the last chance that the plant must be found before the melting of steel.
If the premises melting a radioactive source is important that the radioactive steel equipment not transferred to Andre Miller, or worse, formed in the product and the right to leave the area. Follow the procedure that the radiation detected in the steel, which consumes more expensive per hour will be for the steel plant for cleaning. Most factories have complete control of the steel after melting the sample and place in the one other radiation detector. This is done before the liquid steel is placed in the molding machine.
