Irradiation Airport Version

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/blunkett_xray_blank/

Then this:

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/briefing/3987b1_pres-report.pdf

 

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let you sum up.

 

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Radiation levels not dangerous as long as you don't go through it a few thousand times a year, unless there are malfunctions or scanners that are at higher levels (possible as the low radiation ones are more expensive than the more controllable ones). Situation a little more blurry when it comes to airport workers because no real precautions have been taken to prevent them exposure (unlike x-ray techs in the hospital for example)...

 

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going through security at LAX a couple of days ago, i was watching the screen where you can see the insides of suitcases and holy shit! it's not a grey, hazy picture anymore. it looks like a videogame--it's a 3D rotating frame model with objects inside all colored differently (I imagine by density) and the dude was spinning it and zooming in on certain parts. it was honestly just like a "futuristic" movie graphic.