RE: Airport X-ray Security Scanner

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

The CRCPD notwithstanding (and I read the resolution), the use of metal
detection scanners is an excellent example of comparative risk.  Those of us
who remember air travel before current security procedures can recall that
the hijacking threat was very real, and people die in hijackings.  A metal
detector might well have stopped the Columbine High School massacre. The
risks of such events can in fact be estimated from the frequency.   Before
we start limiting the use of x-ray scanners, I think a comparative risk
estimate is in order.

Clearly only my own opinion

Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov


-----Original Message-----
From: bruce.matkovich@cis.state.mi.us
[mailto:bruce.matkovich@cis.state.mi.us]
Sent: January 04, 2000 6:21 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Airport X-ray Security Scanner 


FYI, the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) issued a 
resolution on "people scanners" at their May 1999 annual meeting.  The text 
of that resolution can be found at:

http://www.crcpd.org/medicine/medicine_19990599.htm

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Bruce Matkovich
Radiation Safety Section
Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services
phone: (517) 241-1993   fax: (517) 241-1981
email: bruce.matkovich@cis.state.mi.us
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