A portable inspection stand for nuclear waste drums. The system is placed on top of a drum, then four arms with embedded cameras fold out and simultaneously take several pictures of the entire drum. The arms with the cameras have a 360° view of the drum and can fit between drums on pallets making the system usable for standalone or palleted drums. Once a snapshot of a drum is taken, the drum information and image are stored in the local memory of the device. After the required drums are inspected, the data is transferred to a database and a defect detection algorithm is employed to show areas of potential damage to the user.