Airport scanner radiation

• About 250 of the machines, known as backscatter units, have been installed at 29 airports across of walking through a full-body scanner 47 times a day for a full year.
(New York Times Blogs)
• A new government report is urging the public not to worry about the safety of full-body X-ray machines at airports, saying a person would have to pass through one dozens of times a day for a year before reaching annual radiation limits.
(Huffington Post)
• WASHINGTON (CNN) — Studies by the U.S.
(FOX6Now.com Milwaukee)
• Washington (CNN)-- Studies by the U.S.
(CNN)
• The rest of the 630 full-body scanners at 150 airports use millimeter-wave technology the machines to ensure that passengers arent exposed to higher levels of radiation.
(USA Today)
• A federal report the Department of Homeland Security plans to release today urges the Transportation Security Administration to improve training and safety policies involving airport security scanners that emit radiation.
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• Radiation levels emitted from backscatter imaging units installed with 247 units currently operating in 39 commercial airports around the country.
(HSToday)
• Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is calling for an independent study of airport scanner machines after a new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found the machines emit safe amounts of radiation.
(Federal Times)
• Can the radiation from airport scanners cause a miscarriage? The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the U.S. Army Public Health Command dont think so, but a U.S. senator from Maine is calling for a new test, just to be safe.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• The new body scanners at Louisville International Airport employ wave millimeter technology The technology does not employ radiation and is said to impose on the body 1/10,000th the amount of energy put out by a typical cell phone.
(Courier-Journal)