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Are pilots and aircraft staff going to be using the new scanners?
The new x-ray backscatter scanners planned for UK airports expose the body to the same radiation as 1.5 hours of background radiation at sea level. Your average chest x-ray in hospital exposes the body to the same radiation as 10 days, or 240 hours, of background radiation.
On doing some simple maths this means that if you travel through a scanner twice a day you will be getting an equivalent extra dose of 1095 hours of background radiation or four and a half chest x-rays a year, and people who work on aircraft already have elevated radiation exposure from cosmic radiation on aircraft which is monitored using flying hours.
Isn't that a little like telling a miner not to worry about the boiler leaking fumes in the wash room because he is so at risk of black lung anyway?
It would be an amazing political hot potato if they aren't going to use them though. That's why I want to know. Maybe they are happy use scanners because of the security risk? Who knows?
I just think this needs debating now, before a precedent is set. What happens when we have a scanner outside every government building, every train station, every school? Are you happy with your daily radiation dose going up by 12.5%?
4 réponses
- il y a 1 décennie
Flight staff do not use the same border proceedure as Passengers. they are already security cleared and therefore pose far less of a risk than random passengers. Aside for the x-ray risk issue there is no history or evidence I know of to say that airline staff have ever brought a bomb on board or tried to hijack an aircraft
Source(s) : UK Border Agency Officer - Anonymeil y a 1 décennie
It's somewhat inconsequential - a transatlantic flight already provides around the same amount of radiation as a chest x-ray.
- PhantomLv 5il y a 1 décennie
At least the flight crews should know what underwear to wear to best block or enhance scans.
- John DLv 6il y a 1 décennie
I would hope so, you can't have rules for some and not for others. However as they are flying the said plane they don't need explosives to do damage. They don't fly everyday so your calculation is excessive.