Port Tampa Bay moved ahead Tuesday with a $4 million project to build three new radiation screening centers next to berths for containers and refrigerated cargo.
The port already has a facility at its main exit where U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers can screen outgoing trucks for weapons of mass destruction and other radioactive contraband, but instead federal officials “wanted these things where the containers came in” and are unloaded, port commissioner Patrick Allman said.
So the port is hiring Tetra Tech to manage the construction of monitoring facilities at the exits from the Berth 212 container facility and the new Port Logistics Refrigerated Services warehouse at Berth 219. Tetra Tech, which designed the facilities, will arrange for the acquisition and delivery of radiation monitoring equipment, at no cost to the port, from the U.S. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office within the Department of Homeland Security.
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