Comments on: What's the Real Radiation Risk of the TSA's Full Body X-Ray Scans? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Pete http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23653 Pete Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:17:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23653 This stuff is scary. I fly a lot and it's such a pain, I actually try and avoid the USA now when I jet about. This stuff is scary. I fly a lot and it’s such a pain, I actually try and avoid the USA now when I jet about.

]]> By: Cuffie Dr Dre Beats http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23652 Cuffie Dr Dre Beats Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:05:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23652 anning gates”, the ones that have always been around before the Xray full body scans? anning gates”, the ones that have always been around before the Xray full body scans?

]]> By: Akiko http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23651 Akiko Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:18:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23651 Can somebody tell me what kind of radiation is coming from the OLD airport "scanning gates", the ones that have always been around before the Xray full body scans? Can somebody tell me what kind of radiation is coming from the OLD airport “scanning gates”, the ones that have always been around before the Xray full body scans?

]]> By: fat albert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23650 fat albert Thu, 19 May 2011 18:20:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23650 hey hey hey who wants to play hey hey hey who wants to play

]]> By: Jeff Buske http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23649 Jeff Buske Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:55:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23649 Quick points: Backsactter delivers intense focused pencil beam of soft (50-60KVp) x-rays head to toe front and back. Instantaneous dose is very high. Most of the dose delivered in first few cm (skin, breast, testicles, eyes dose 20x body dose). Soft X-rays more damaging to DNA than hard medical x-rays used for imaging. Pencil beam of x-rays creates more difficult to repair double DNA breaks. 5% of people have BRAC DNA gene repair defect issue, more prone to cancer. Damage to DNA and cells done in a billionth of a second. Damage is cumulative cancer happens years later. Average dose low due to sweeping, and old 1940's REM calculations that discount skin cancer Vs Internal organs. New high energy forward scatter airport scanners x-ray generate transmission images (chest x-ray type). Have questions about x-rays, radiation shielding, how scanners work drop me a note will try to answer all. We have informative videos on youtube Rockyflatsgear channel. Quick points:

Backsactter delivers intense focused pencil beam of soft (50-60KVp) x-rays head to toe front and back.

Instantaneous dose is very high.

Most of the dose delivered in first few cm (skin, breast, testicles, eyes dose 20x body dose).

Soft X-rays more damaging to DNA than hard medical x-rays used for imaging.

Pencil beam of x-rays creates more difficult to repair double DNA breaks.

5% of people have BRAC DNA gene repair defect issue, more prone to cancer.

Damage to DNA and cells done in a billionth of a second. Damage is cumulative cancer happens years later.

Average dose low due to sweeping, and old 1940′s REM calculations that discount skin cancer Vs Internal organs.

New high energy forward scatter airport scanners x-ray generate transmission images (chest x-ray type).

Have questions about x-rays, radiation shielding, how scanners work drop me a note will try to answer all. We have informative videos on youtube Rockyflatsgear channel.

]]> By: GetAClue http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23648 GetAClue Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:34:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23648 people forget. when you go to a dentist or have a chest xray, that machine is used a couple times a day, 10-15 tops. The machine is also required to be checked and calibrated every 2 years or less. At an airport processing 10,000,000 people a year, if there are 20 machines, and 1 in 100 people are scanned, that machine is being used for 5,000 exposures, by someone who is not a radiologist. Do you really think that minimum wage TSA worker gives a shit if that xray machine is exceeding its designed output? do you think they even know? people forget. when you go to a dentist or have a chest xray, that machine is used a couple times a day, 10-15 tops. The machine is also required to be checked and calibrated every 2 years or less.

At an airport processing 10,000,000 people a year, if there are 20 machines, and 1 in 100 people are scanned, that machine is being used for 5,000 exposures, by someone who is not a radiologist.

Do you really think that minimum wage TSA worker gives a shit if that xray machine is exceeding its designed output? do you think they even know?

]]> By: '53 Korean Vet http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23647 '53 Korean Vet Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:11:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23647 Are these "Qualified" Government "Disclaimers"--the same ones, who "O-Ked DDT" as SAFE-? Also, were they the "Ones"--who set the "Radiation-Limits" on Indian Radiation-Badges, who were "mining Uranium-Ore" for the U.S. Govt--and those same Miners had the biggest rates of "Cancer-Deaths" in the Nation-! I say--"It's all in 'Who Pays Your Salary'-!" Ask any Congress-man, who's been offered "A Large Political Donation--from the Banks, or a Big Union-Boss-!" As George Washington retorted--"Who Can You Trust--Nowdays-!?" "Tax-Payers" are "Tired of Being Treated as Suckers-!" Are these “Qualified” Government “Disclaimers”–the same ones, who “O-Ked DDT” as SAFE-?
Also, were they the “Ones”–who set the “Radiation-Limits” on Indian Radiation-Badges, who were “mining Uranium-Ore” for the U.S. Govt–and those same Miners had the biggest rates of “Cancer-Deaths” in the Nation-! I say–”It’s all in ‘Who Pays Your Salary’-!”
Ask any Congress-man, who’s been offered “A Large Political Donation–from the Banks, or
a Big Union-Boss-!” As George Washington retorted–”Who Can You Trust–Nowdays-!?”
“Tax-Payers” are “Tired of Being Treated as Suckers-!”

]]> By: ConcernedCitizen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23646 ConcernedCitizen Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:33:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23646 Sign the Petition sponsored by a U.S. Senator who is against these new invasive TSA procedures. As a Senator, he has sponsored legislation against them !! Take 5 seconds to sign his Petition: http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/tsa-petition/sign-the-petition-help-stop-invasive-tsa-screening/7149 Sign the Petition sponsored by a U.S. Senator who is against these new invasive TSA procedures.

As a Senator, he has sponsored legislation against them !!

Take 5 seconds to sign his Petition:

http://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/tsa-petition/sign-the-petition-help-stop-invasive-tsa-screening/7149

]]> By: melissa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23645 melissa Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:13:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23645 The elephant in the room is flying! If people are extremely worried about the risk of getting cancer, or they're in the 5% highest risk group, they should not fly at all. The X-ray based body scanners are responsible for a miniscule percentage of the total radiation a passenger will receive. How can people argue the scanners are the issue, when the big source of radiation is sitting in a passenger seat aloft?! The elephant in the room is flying! If people are extremely worried about the risk of getting cancer, or they’re in the 5% highest risk group, they should not fly at all. The X-ray based body scanners are responsible for a miniscule percentage of the total radiation a passenger will receive. How can people argue the scanners are the issue, when the big source of radiation is sitting in a passenger seat aloft?!

]]> By: EAP http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/17/whats-the-real-radiation-risk-of-the-tsas-full-body-x-ray-scans/#comment-23644 EAP Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:12:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=22893#comment-23644 After reading what MM wrote I realized this does affect us and will end up hurting us. THAT'S why the gov't people don't have to go through it. If I had any doubts now it is all cleared up. It's kind of like the "anthrax" scare, how they we're getting letters from the "terrorists" after 9/11 and yet even before it happened they had all taken the antidote. How can you take something to protect you from something that hasn't happened yet? I now see how they're planning to kill us without the public knowing. I rather take long train or bus rides, or take road trips and spend more time with my family. I'll do a cruise to travel out of the country. I don't know why what MM wrote even suprised me to be honest. Smh. After reading what MM wrote I realized this does affect us and will end up hurting us. THAT’S why the gov’t people don’t have to go through it. If I had any doubts now it is all cleared up. It’s kind of like the “anthrax” scare, how they we’re getting letters from the “terrorists” after 9/11 and yet even before it happened they had all taken the antidote. How can you take something to protect you from something that hasn’t happened yet? I now see how they’re planning to kill us without the public knowing. I rather take long train or bus rides, or take road trips and spend more time with my family. I’ll do a cruise to travel out of the country. I don’t know why what MM wrote even suprised me to be honest. Smh.

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