BigNick
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Although I'm skeptical about the harm that the radiation from one single scan represents, I suspect that there may be an angle here for some subversiveness.
You know when you get an X-ray at the hospital or the dentist how the tech goes behind the lead shielding? They get an even smaller micro-dose than you do, but at a hundred a day it adds up.
Suppose someone asked how much radiation leaks out of the scanner where TSA personnel are standing a few feet away? It it's 1% of what the passenger is getting, some multiplication by 500/day and 250 days/year is going to start setting off some alarms.
Remember, we notice the acute and the relative, but what gets you is the chronic and the absolute. (I might make that my sig line.)
You know when you get an X-ray at the hospital or the dentist how the tech goes behind the lead shielding? They get an even smaller micro-dose than you do, but at a hundred a day it adds up.
Suppose someone asked how much radiation leaks out of the scanner where TSA personnel are standing a few feet away? It it's 1% of what the passenger is getting, some multiplication by 500/day and 250 days/year is going to start setting off some alarms.
Remember, we notice the acute and the relative, but what gets you is the chronic and the absolute. (I might make that my sig line.)