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newfie11

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6. Nothing low energy is going to give that image

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 06:43 AM

Jan 2012

This is a shit load of radiation. You cannot get that image without a very high gamma output. If they do this people need to be removed from the vehicle first and be no where near it during the scan. HELL YEAH this will cause cancer if done often enough. This is insanity!!!!!!!!!

If they are monitored like the chernoff porno scanners at the airports, run/drive far far away. In medical radiography all our x-ray equipment MUST be tested once a year by a physicist.

It is my understanding the scanners at airports are never tested. If they are the info is not available to public.

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DHS' X-ray scanners could be cancer risk to border crossers [View all] Newsjock Jan 2012 OP

Wouldnt the answer be to have passengers get out of the vehicle DJ13 Jan 2012 #1

No, the answer is to get rid of the paranoid nut cases in and out of our government that are backing RC Jan 2012 #2

Bingo arikara Jan 2012 #3

I agree, in fact I was the first rec on the OP DJ13 Jan 2012 #4

I have mixed feelings about these kinds of reports caraher Jan 2012 #5

Nothing low energy is going to give that image newfie11 Jan 2012 #6

There is no way to know what radiation level in each indivudal will cause cancer newfie11 Jan 2012 #7