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Full-body radiation scanning for air travellers?

Critics have raised concerns over the cost of the technology, privacy issues and the possible health consequences from exposure to radiation

Labor still weighing scanner use  The Age January 9, 2010 AUSTRALIA is yet to decide whether to boost airport security by using controversial whole-body imaging scanners, which the US Government is now urging other countries to adopt.

The scanners – which can detect explosives and other objects hidden beneath people’s clothing – are to be used more widely across the US following a failed bombing attempt on a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.But yesterday the Rudd Government said it was still considering whether the scanners were worth using, more than a year after Australian authorities conducted a six-week trial involving 12,000 people across three airports in late 2008…………….

Critics have raised concerns over the cost of the technology, privacy issues and the possible health consequences from exposure to radiation

Labor still weighing scanner use

January 8, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, health | antinuclear, Australia, radioactive