"Each 3 second scan exposes a person to 3 microRem of radiation. This level compares with the 10 to 20 microRem per hour that a person receives from naturally occurring background radiation..."

Let's do the math, shall we?

Using the numbers provided in the previous post:

There are 3600 seconds in an hour. This device would cause an exposure of 3600 microRem in 1 hour's time, which is 180-360 times the normal background radiation! :eek: That is simply not acceptable! There is no safe dosage of radiation! Exposing people to these amounts to search for non-credible weapons (ceramic knives) when non-invasive and non-carcinogenic options of searching for real weapons exist (guns and bombs via the WTMD and chemical detectors) is insane.

I wouldnt even know what to say if they placed X-RAY machines for the public.

I would be too scared to even work.

Bad enough I am already paranoid being around X-RAY in the bagroom and at checkpoint all day.

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Wow! People are unhappy about 1)getting shot up with x-ray radiation, for which there is no "safe" dose and 2)having their naked image projected onto a screen? I just don't understand what all the fuss is about...

You are around the machine. You are not being bombarded with x-rays like the baggage is. Big difference!

You can sit near the fire (safe) without sitting in the fire (not as safe). See the difference? ;)

Ha!

As the bag goes in the machine, the "lead" curtains are pushed up, thus leading the X-rays OUT and shooting into my body, CONSTANTLY!

But oh well.

I guess im not going to have kids.

Uh... no.

Take a geiger counter and see that there is no additional radiation hitting you.

Your future children are still safe. ;)

More to the point, are you advocating some kind of "scorched earth" policy for the travelers?? :confused:

Trust me, there is radiation escaping, especially when we put in long bags, the red light turns on that radiation is active, and we are standing in front of it loading because that is the only way we can load the bags in the bagroom, thus letting radiation hit us. Im sure the CTX does not have X-rays escaping, but im sure the basic X-RAY does. If i am not mistaking X-RAYS travel in 45* angles.

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No, I do not agree, I was being sarcastic. I would not want to be around anymore radiation that what I am exposed to.

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I think someone should come out with a radar or mri type detection system

?? But you are not standing in the machine for one hour only 3 seconds so you logic doesn't make sense to me. If you are worried about any dose of radiation then I am surprised you are willing to fly. A flight from NY to LA will give you 3000 microRem and this is actual exposure, So 3 second in the X-Ray is .1% of what you will actually be getting on the flight.

There are two sets of curtains plus the beam is not directed anywhere near the curtains.

It doesn't matter!

Any additional dose of radiation, especially a concentrated one like this still cannot be considered "safe"!

More people's health is being endangered than lives saved by detecting such implausible and non-credible weapons!

It would be like forcing everyone to take an experimental vaccine that is known to kill in large doses and is possibly harmful in smaller doses to prevent an extremely rare disease that has extremely low primary transmittability and zero secondary transmittability.

It's simply not worth it.

I have been there when the tests have been done. A geiger counter is used and places on the belt in front of the curtain, on top, at the keyboard, on the floor underneath and there are no readings. The machine is designed to shut itself down if the radiation increases even a very small amount.

Precisely. OSHA would never let anyone, even TSA screeners (:D) operate a device that leaked x-rays.

But you will talk on your cell phone as you head to the checkpoint then get right back on it after you get through. You are exposing yourself to more radiation then these machines would ever give you.

I am not arguing the use of the machine just the logic being used against the use of the machines.