Originally Posted by
txflyer77
Even if the BKSX machines are designed to emit some tiny fraction of an acceptable dose, we'd still have to trust that:
a) the machines are configured and maintained properly by the TSA
b) the manufacturer didn't screw up
Seems like a situation ripe for a repeat of
Therac-25.
It's more fundamental for me: Why would anyone voluntarily submit themselves to being irradiated by an industrial x-ray? Why would a government willingly do this to its people? Poetic justice -- the real losers are the TSA clerks who operated these Cancer Boxes 8-9 hours per day while standing right next to it. Depending upon other health risks of the individual clerks, some of them could be dropping like flies in the next few years.