Ammon News - Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission EMRC Hussein Allaboun inaugurated, in the presence of the Canadian Ambassador to Jordan Donica Pottie, the radiation monitoring system project at the Queen Alia International airport and Amman Civil airport.

Funded by the Canadian government, the project will enhance the Kingdom's capabilities in the field of nuclear security.

In a press statement after the inauguration, Allaboun stressed the importance of the project in improving the country's capability to confront illicit trafficking of nuclear and radioactive material throughout the Jordanian borderline.

This implementation phase comes at a budget of $3.7 million out of a bilateral agreement between the two governments that is worth $24.9 million dedicated to enhance Jordan nuclear security infrastructure.

53 fixed radiation detection devices were installed at a number of border crossings to inspect vehicles coming and leaving the Kingdom's territories, as well as portable radiation detection devices used to identify the specific type of radio- isotopes in secondary screening operations for vehicles and cargo, Allaboun said.

He added that equipment and devices used for decontamination, and mobile laboratories to monitor the radiation levels in the air were provided, noting that 16 radiation monitoring stations (among a total of 19 distributed throughout the kingdom) were installed to continuously monitor radioactivity in the surrounding environment.

EMRC conducted more than 1.5 million radiological screening cases at all border gates, Allaboun said.