Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Airport body scanners deliver radiation dose 20 times higher than first thought | Mail Online

The controversial use of full body scanners in airports could lead to an increase in skin cancers, according to leading scientists.

They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin - one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body - that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated.


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