Posted on 01/16/2012 7:29:56 AM PST by george76
The agency will not retest the machines or airline passengers
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After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide.
But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners.
News of the test leaked out after the TSA issued a request last month to government vendors to provide wearable, personal dosimeters, devices that measure exposure to radiation.
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Don’t forget all the SEIU hospital workers that might have been close to a patient that had an isotope procedure.
Here is another thought- maybe this is being pushed by the guys who make the millimeter wave scanners? If TSA bans the xray machines they’ll order a billion dollars worth of mmW scanners.
I wonder how the government will cover up the scanner radiation hazard once TSA workers’ nads start falling off?
http://www.aviationpros.com/news/10612363/tsa-to-shield-screeners-from-radiation
One problem is that the dosimeters the TSA guys use are the same ones everyone uses, including hospital workers, but they are not sensitive enough to pick up the tiny amounts around these scanners. That’s why they will be doing medical exams.
Sort of like Dow Corning breast implants and Agent Orange. Oh and Alar.
Why? They’ve been bemoaning about how safe they are—they’re just now testing them?? Are the jaws of their TSA goons dropping from their heads with over exposure already?
just the POTENTIAL harm will qualify for the gravy train.
AND
there will be yet another government controlled trust fund put in place.
The crony capitalists who sold these cancer generators should be put in jail.
Good to see that the government is a self-correcting entity. The TSA obviously learned the lesson of the NTSB, where they initially forced auto maker to release air bag equipped cars that could decapitate drivers.
/sarc
Gee, I’d hate to see the little fascist pervs having been diseased by their own abusive operation. This is rich. There is a God and He is just.
For some reason that reminds me about the issue of cops getting testicular cancer from radar guns. I wonder how that worked out.
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