Originally Posted by
BillyBleach
The scaremongering on this thread, unsurprisingly is not warranted and highly uninformed. You need to pass through a millimeter scanner 1000–2000 times to equal the dose from a medical chest X-ray.
Not to mention the fact that the average flight a window seat passenger would receive twice the dose of the scanner (2uS).
ref -
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...87850714000168
Frankly anyone who is avoiding the x-ray scanners due to radiation fears, is so uninformed it's sad. If they took any level of investigation into radiation risks in electronics and the regulation around radiological emissions, there really wouldn't be anything to be fearing.
There are no backscatter whole body imagers currently in use at U.S. airports.
Based entirely on your comment I don't think you fully understand the differences between backscatter and millimeter wave scanners.
As far as radiation exposure goes one government agency stated that there is no known safe exposure limit. Other agencies have made other claims. The backscatter scanner units used by TSA was never independently tested for emissions so we really don't know how dangerous, or not, they actually were.