The easy to use, lightweight, portable FH 40 D monitor is designed for customs officials to detect contraband hidden in void spaces of vehicles using the gamma backscatting effect.
Product Detail
The set FH 40 D is designed for use by customs inspectors, police, and other security and anti-terrorists task forces. It is a powerful tool for:
detection of contraband hidden in cavities
detection of illicit transports of nuclear material
measurement of local gamma dose rate and dose
Cavities filled with cigarettes, drugs, explosives and other organic compounds containing a high amount of light elements like hydrogen, carbon and other elements with low atomic mass can be positively detected. Penetrating gamma radiation is used to look through covers of steel, aluminium, ... Specially light elements will backscatter a considerable amount of radiation to the detector -- this is used as indicator.
FH 40 D can't tell you what it is, but it will indicate that there is something which shouldn't be there. Likewise nuclear material can be detected in places where no radiation is expected to be, by searching with the gamma detector alone - a highly sensitive NaI-scintillation detector. This detector is 150 times more sensitive than a good 'standard' gamma survey meter.
The FH 40 D set consists of:
FH 40 G-L Advanced Survey Meter
FHZ 512 highly sensitive scintillation detector for gamma radiation
Adapter with 200 kBq Ba-133 source for investigation of objects
Optionally available are:
telescopes for the detector for extension of the physical range
neutron detectors for detection of fissile nuclear material
FH 40 G-L Survey Meter
FHZ 512 Scintillation Detector
Coiled Cable
Check Source and tiltable holding device
300 kBq Ba-133 source enclosed in 10 mm lead collimator (approximately 300 g). The collimator
is mounted on top of the FHZ 512 and can be tilted from 0° to 90° for measurements around
corners. 180° position in closed (storage position).
Total weight: 1.3 kg (3 lbs)
Detection of radioactive material :
FH 40 G-L Advanced Survey Meter FHZ 512 Scintillation Detector 1" x 1"-NaI(Tl) Detector in a shock and water resistant housing, powered by FH 40 G-L