Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters?
A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our X-ray technology are well below the requirements that would require their routine usage. To help reassure passengers and employees that the technology is safe, however, health physicists with the U.S. Army have been conducting area dosimeter surveys at multiple airports nationwide.
Sounds like nonsense to me... at the least, I'd like to see the resulting data from those surveys posted online and kept up to date so the public can see it.
This is insultingly nonsensical from the TSA. The reason they list might be a reason not to require dosimeters, but it's certainly not a good reson to prohibit it. And it's not a good reason not to require it, either, since the purpose of dosimeters is not just to measure radiation accumulated by an operator, but as part of the alert system for a malfunctioning device.
The entire thing is theatre so why wouldn't they keep up the theatre.
The funny thing is most of the fear stems from TSA style non-sense that has people freaked out about radiation. Everyone worries about dirty bombs, and TSA x-rays, fukushima, no one about the thorium / uranium released from burning coal.
Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters?
A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our X-ray technology are well below the requirements that would require their routine usage. To help reassure passengers and employees that the technology is safe, however, health physicists with the U.S. Army have been conducting area dosimeter surveys at multiple airports nationwide.
Sounds like nonsense to me... at the least, I'd like to see the resulting data from those surveys posted online and kept up to date so the public can see it.