What is Radiation Check?


The Japanese automobile industry is one of the largest and prominent automobile industries in the world at present. Japanese products are renowned across the world for their quality and reliability. The hard work and dedication poured by Japanese makers towards their work can be seen easily in the vehicle they manufacture. People love to spend money to purchase vehicles from world’s renowned automakers. And Japanese used vehicles are no such exceptions. Strong inclination of Japanese towards new technologies and strict roadworthiness regulations make Japanese to sell their vehicle early even though they are still relatively new. Importing a used vehicle from Japan is also very easy due to many online used car portals. While buying a used Japanese vehicle, one gets a quality vehicle at reasonable rates.


Used vehicles exported from Japan are subject to inspection in order to detect the presence of any radioactive substance, due to the incidence that took place at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. After the earthquake in the year 2011, there has been a leakage of radioactive substance from the plant, which led to heavily contamination of the area. Many countries which import Japanese used vehicles require radiation inspection on imported vehicles to make sure that the particular vehicle is free from any radioactive substance. The vehicle must be certified before its importation. Those vehicles that do not pass the test are not allowed to be exported to other countries.

There are many organizations that perform complete inspection on used vehicles before they are exported from Japan. Various skilled and experienced organizations like JAAI, JEVIC perform inspection on vehicles before they are exported. These organizations not only perform inspection on vehicles, but also on heavy machinery, containerized cargo, transportation vessels. In radiation inspection process appropriate and advanced equipments are used to measure the radiation level. After a successful completion of inspection, a certificate is issued if the vehicle does not contain any radioactive contamination.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan, has set that vehicles exported from Japan should contain less than 0.3 micro sievert per hour scale. To make sure that the used vehicle imported is radiation free or that the level of radiation match with the safety standards, an inspection is performed on vehicles before their importation.

Japan automobile industry is one of the world’s top auto industries. Around millions of vehicles are produced and exported from Japan every year. Public reputation of Japanese vehicles is so good that whenever Japanese automakers comes out with a new vehicle, they instantly draws crowd. With new vehicles popularity of used Japanese vehicles is also increasing. More and more people across the world prefer to buy used vehicles as they are high on quality and reasonably available. While importing a vehicle major concern is regarding the vehicle’s condition i.e. it should match with the safety standards of the country in which it is imported. There can’t be any vehicle exported from Japan that would be contaminated to a degree that would cause health hazard to any individual. But still, complete assurance is required, thus to make sure that the vehicle imported is free from any radioactive substance, it is essential to get the vehicle inspected and certified for the absence of radioactive contamination.

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