From a post of mine on another thread:
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You can get as much as 660 micro-REMS per hour in flight, with 250 micro REMS per hour being a low average. That’s at least ten times ground level background.
If the xray scanners are harmful with their less-than-a-second less than 25 microrem scan, airline flight is many many times more dangerous.
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.html
Plus, lots of airline radiation is heavy particles and neutrons, not just low energy x-rays.
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So air flight gives you at least 200 uREM/hour. This memo:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/fda-backscatter-response.pdf
says that the scanners are limited by law to 25 uREM per scan, and you’ll find actual measurements in the 5 uREM to 9 uREM from AS&E.
So you get more dose in flight. Plus, the in-flight dose is made up of higher energy photons mixed with particles from cosmic rays, and a bunch of really hot neutrons. Looking at the numbers, you can get more dose in an hour on a plane than you get from a scanner.
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The BIER report of radiation risks:
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/brp/radon_division/BEIR VII Preliminary Report.pdf
And, of course, you actually believe the reports issued by companies that have cleared these machines so the profiteers can make mega bucks ________ ?
Did you check all the reports on my links _______ ? I know the answer to that question. Do not bother to reply.
I will just keep taking the train. In about two years the scanner companies will be buried in litigation over harmful effects from scanners. BIG SIS will be run out of DC on a rail and the profiteers may be locked behind bars.
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