By Alyssa Aquino (April 20, 2022, 4:32 PM EDT) — A federal watchdog called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to reassess a $293 million project to replace cargo radiation detection monitors at highly trafficked ports, saying the replacement systems set off false radioactivity alerts at unacceptably high rates.
The Government Accountability Office said that the new radiation portal monitors are supposed to cut down on “nuisance alarms,” which are set off by naturally occurring radiation in consumer goods, but prompt a labor-intensive secondary inspection process. But testing has shown that the new monitors trigger nuisance alarms at higher rates than the existing monitors, the watchdog said in a report…
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