Scientists doubt safety of full body airport radiation scanning
“There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world”..
Scientists question safety of airport full body scanners, Gadling.com, by Scott Carmichael May 18th 2010 “…..Since the first of these machines made it to an airport, the TSA has been very vocal about telling the traveling public that they are 100% safe, and that we have nothing to worry about.
Except for the risk of too much exposure to ionizing radiation that is..
.Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco are disputing the claims that the machines are safe – and have presented their own research on the effects of the radiation from a trip through a whole body scanner.
According to the researchers, the calculated amount of radiation was based upon an average over the whole body – but the number that actually gets deposited in your skin may be higher – though they don’t know by how much……David Brenner, head of Columbia University’s Center for Radiological Research also aired his concerns – “There really is no other technology around where we’re planning to X-ray such an enormous number of individuals. It’s really unprecedented in the radiation world”…..When the scanners were first tested, their purpose was for secondary scanning procedures, not for mass scans of every passenger.
Scientists question safety of airport full body scanners | Gadling.com
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