TSA to test its airport scanner operators for radiation exposure

That should have already been put in place as it is standard procedure for other workers working around any radiation source continually,i.e Xray techs, nuclear power plant and all the military folks that work around any nuclear stuff.

Question is, what if they find over exposure or someone at threshold, what are they gonna do?

Amazing that crewmembers (exposed to higher levels of radiation than common-folk), aren't issued rad badges.

I see in the story they have no intention to test the people they are directly irradiating. In 30 years when cancer rates skyrocket. I bet the TSA won't even be mentioned.

In 30 years I hope the TSA is long gone.

In 30 years I hope it has been out of existsnt for about 29 years.

They are definitely behind the airplane on this issue.

Exposure concerns are a red herring.

The real problem with these machines is that they don't necessarily work, and that they're a multi-billion dollar fleecing of US taxpayers.

Who is TSA KIDDING?  They've got a scanner at one checkpoint, but NO scanner at the one right next to it. They've got scanners at some airports, but not others...  

Hmmm, it'd take some real brains for a terrorist to work around that.  

Meanwhile, explosives sniffing dogs can do as good a job at a fraction of the price.   

Oh, but of course there isn't some corporation standing to rake in billions from the government for the deployment of dogs.  

That's what this is about. Follow the money, not the radiation.


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Well if they find anything how much you wanna bet they'll cover it up as quick as they notice it?

I can see the parasite lawyer adds on tv now. "If you have flown in the last 2 years you may be entitled to compensation" I thought there were no exposure problems with these machines? Chertoff said so.

Several of us that fly long haul flights, especially polar routes, have used them to collect data. The company dismisses the data as unreliable because they don't want to have to do anything about it.