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It's very easy to get false positives with dosimeters. See http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/515496-YZWUcS/webviewable/515496.pdf http://www.osti.gov/bri
by AngryParsley 15y ago
It's very easy to get false positives with dosimeters. See http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/515496-YZWUcS/webviewable/515496.pdf http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/515496-YZWUcS/webvi... A nuclear waste disposal facility had 10% of dosimeters falsely trigger each quarter. Eventually they traced the cause to some overhead lights. Different types of dosimeters can be falsely triggered by heat, cold, UV, or solvents.
People at the TSA know this, which is why they banned dosimeters. Even if backscatter machines are perfectly safe, the TSA is big enough that there will be countless false positives.
- ck2 15y agoThat's not why the TSA banned them. It ruins the security theater illusion and would bring on countless lawsuits. The real way to end the TSA reign of terror is to force congresspeople, tsa executives and everyone else who wrote themselves into exemption from all scans and gropes - to actually have to go through lines and security theater. Then it would end quickly.
- fluidcruft 15y agoEnough. Radiation badges are used routinely in hospitals. I assume that there are far more health care workers that handle radiation than there are TSA agents working backscatter machines (but perhaps it is a mistake to underestimate the extent of the TSA waste).