<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Chance of Dying From Airport Backscatter Radiation About the Same as Chance of Getting Killed by Terrorists</span></span>
MSNBC:
Peter Rez, a physics professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, did his own calculations and found the exposure to be about one-fiftieth to one-hundredth the amount of a standard chest X-ray. He calculated the risk of getting cancer from a single scan at about 1 in 30 million, “which puts it somewhat less than being killed by being struck by lightning in any one year,” he told me.
While the risk of getting a fatal cancer from the screening is minuscule, it’s about equal to the probability that an airplane will get blown up by a terrorist, he added. “So my view is there is not a case to be made for deploying them to prevent such a low probability event.”
MSNBC:
Peter Rez, a physics professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, did his own calculations and found the exposure to be about one-fiftieth to one-hundredth the amount of a standard chest X-ray. He calculated the risk of getting cancer from a single scan at about 1 in 30 million, “which puts it somewhat less than being killed by being struck by lightning in any one year,” he told me.
While the risk of getting a fatal cancer from the screening is minuscule, it’s about equal to the probability that an airplane will get blown up by a terrorist, he added. “So my view is there is not a case to be made for deploying them to prevent such a low probability event.”
i was wondering y him neva have a change a clothes inna him hand luggage.
But everybody allowed a personal carrying thing- him coulda did have a manpurse and put 2 brief inna it just in case. Plus if u have dem type machinery deh- dont u have to carry supplies for it. A change of things should be standard for him. I felt bad for him, but mi neva fully believe him.
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