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Is the radiation worse than a long-distance flight?
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
Is the radiation worse than a long-distance flight?
- biff 13y agoDoesn't help the cause if you're already doing a long-distance flight...
- ignostic 13y agoPassive mm-wave scanners do not produce radiation. The active mm-wave scanners use non-ionizing radiation which has been studied and shown not to cause cancer. One study even suggested it might reduce metastasis: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20208/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20208/abstrac... The flight itself isn't even that bad, but it is worse than the scanners. You get maybe 5 mrem (50 µSv) flying from London to NYC. http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.html http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.... The flight radiation is something you'd want to avoid, but a single flight is almost insignificant. XKCD has a reference chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/ http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Flight radiation is mostly a concern for flight crew.