Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters?
A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our X-ray technology are well below the requirements that would require their routine usage. To help reassure passengers and employees that the technology is safe, however, health physicists with the U.S. Army have been conducting area dosimeter surveys at multiple airports nationwide.
Sounds like nonsense to me... at the least, I'd like to see the resulting data from those surveys posted online and kept up to date so the public can see it.
The funny thing is most of the fear stems from TSA style non-sense that has people freaked out about radiation. Everyone worries about dirty bombs, and TSA x-rays, fukushima, no one about the thorium / uranium released from burning coal.
That said, I don't like it that TSA staff don't wear radiation badges, at least I haven't noticed any. One lady working for TSA, at the backscatter device, was very pregnant and I wondered about the radiation hazard for her, if any.