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Re: Stop the panic on air security - err, no, irradiate it


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:02:29 -0500



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From: Gene Spafford <spaf () purdue edu>
Date: January 14, 2010 3:14:33 PM EST
To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] re Stop the panic on air security - err, no, irradiate it


Here is a site about the radiation exposure.  Note that the machines that are glass "elevators" don't use ioning 
radiation at all.

This matches what I have seen at other sites -- I get more radiation from flying every year than any incidental 
exposure from screening.  

http://newsletter.onespot.com/health/2009/12/30/a/555857956-what-is-the-radiation-exposure/   (then follow the link for 
the blog post)






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