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Re:The Revival of Concorde by diyorgasms on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:10PM (#10242773)
Presumably the millimeter wave body scanners, which are both invasive and relatively unstudied in its health effects.
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Re:The Revival of Concorde by toomuchtodo on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:13PM (#10242784)
Apparently millimeter wave radiation can be ionizing under the right circumstances. That's sort of terrifying.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294

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Re:The Revival of Concorde by oakwhiz on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:58PM (#10242881)
The paper you referred to doesn't make any claims with regards to ionization - the effects considered are mainly having to do with the molecular dynamics behaviors of DNA.
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