Radiation Protection Assessment of Ionization Inspection System Kind (RAPISCAN-GARDS)

The international production of the ionization inspection system has been increasing year-by-year, especially after the events of September 11th, 2001. Since that, many countries needed high-efficiency systems to detect to conserve both time and effort. These systems entered and started development in Iraq and other countries, especially after 2003, a lot of Iraqi and world sectors became dependent on these systems in the inspection and detection process. However, the using of these systems mainly, nowadays, as an optimized solution in any country or organization to save the security situation. The workers of these systems are border security. Therefore,their knowledge in the radiation protection field is very limited, and poor, and their exposure to radiation is highly possible. The aim of this research is to measure the accumulated equivalent dose to the radiological workers (operator) and the under inspection vehicles drivers and member of public and then compare with constrains of radiation exposure limits used by other countries which use these systems as a first step to put the local limitations. The published version of IAEA (GSR. Part no. 3) in 2011 mentioned that using these systems are forbidden only after prevented the getting the justifications of the regulatory body for each country. Some dosimetries are need to be give to the number of truck drivers which passing through the border or number of truck drivers and instruct them to pass through the scanning system with different speeds to measure the accumulated equivalent dose to the truck drivers, assistants, operators, and general people. The results need to compare with the theory calculations. So, all these values should submit within the commitment limitation which documented in the operation manual of the system.