TSA STARTS TESTING AIRPORT PERSONAL FOR RADIATION POISONING
Following reports of cancer clusters at Boston-Logan Airport, the TSA is set to test its radiation scanner operators for radiation exposure, but still refuses to test the actual machines that thousands of Americans are forced to pass through each day.
After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the TSA plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide. But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners. News of the test leaked out after the TSA issued a request last month to government vendors to provide wearable, personal dosimeters, devices that measure exposure to radiation. Critics of the TSA support the idea of testing TSA workers. But they continue to call on the TSA to perform independent studies of the full-body scanners to ensure that airline passengers are not being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. "We still have no idea how much radiation is being imposed on travelers by a properly functioning machine," said James Babb, co-founder of We Won't Fly, a consumer advocacy group. "A malfunctioning machine could be particularly nasty." (Unfortunately they still don't give a rats ass about the poor passengers  they force into thier human microwave ovens!)
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