Using radiation monitors to prevent illicit nuclear trafficking: Experience of Uzbekistan

According to the programme of radiation monitoring in Uzbekistan to prevent illicit nuclear trafficking, main customs border checkpoints were equipped with radiation portal monitors. In total, 30 checkpoints (19 vehicle, 10 railway and Tashkent international airport) were equipped with 175 monitors, produced by the Russian company Aspect. Special radiation monitors were elaborated, manufactured and installed in the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences (main gates, research reactor and laboratories building). The paper covers these works and other activities on preventing nuclear smuggling. (author)