Originally Posted by
andrew10412
and as many others have mentioned dangerous with the radiation levels that it exposes you to.
This is complete nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense.
The HPS, Health Physics Society, (a group of extremely smart and passionate scientists who take their work very seriously) estimated the dose from a single WBS to be about 0.005 millirems. To put that in perspective, the HPS has also calculated dose to air travelers during solar minimums is about 0.4 millirem per hour of flight (at 30,000 ft, higher altitude would be a larger number).
So, if the dose received during an WBS is unacceptable to you, then you should also not be going on any flights longer than 45
seconds at 30,000 ft, in which time you would receive 0.005 millirem.
Ref:
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q444.html
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q8440.html
Originally Posted by
hockeystl
They don't state what original dose estimates they are referring too but I'll ignore that.
Let's say they are right, and despite the sensationalist reporting and potential erorr in their measurements, it is 20x the above estimate. This means that you are getting as much radiation as you receive on a 15 minute flight at 30,000 ft.
Originally Posted by
pokeable
Nope. S'why I will opt out.
I get enough scatter at work, I don't want to subject myself to even more before stepping on a plane.
Then you should also stop eating banana's, which provide about 0.01 mrem for the "average" banana. (Bananas contain naturally radioactive potassium)
/rant
If people want to debate privacy or public safety concerns that is respectable, but please don't start with all the radiation fear mongering.