Re: HIGH-TECH SECURITY TOOLS GET A SECOND LOOK

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>

An: RadSafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Mittwoch, 26. September 2001 21:04

Betreff: FW: HIGH-TECH SECURITY TOOLS GET A SECOND LOOK





Here we go again: the wish for "security" (whatever this is) "justifies" the

use of x-rays, additional doses to flight passengers, inmates, school

children etc. Is this really not "sold" under the name of hormesis? "High

Tech", thats the wonder word. On the other side we have those anti's, who

regard an atto-Curie per cubic light year of tritium as a deadly threat to

our civilisation, or an expectable amount of Sr-90 in baby teeth as the

confirmation of the deadly impact of nuclear reactors (TFP).



Is the US really going to use security considerations as a justification of

violation of human rights? We have the ALARA principle and at least in

Europe we have a legislation, which prohibits the deliberate use of ionizing

radiation on humans for other purposes than medical ones.



Not taking into considerations the very basic reasons for refusal of the use

of ionizing radiation for such cases - what are the doses delivered to the

inmates? Is this procedure really allowed in US regulations?



Other questions which arise for me: Are these inmates forced to subject to

x-rays, twice a day? Are they subject to pressure for that? Do they receive

benefits for consent?



This was the most disgusting information I can think of.



Please tell me, that it is a hoax. I find it hard to believe.



Franz











>HIGH-TECH SECURITY TOOLS GET A SECOND LOOK

>from The San Francisco Chronicle

>

>Security specialists are taking another look at technologies that seemed

>out of the question before last week's terrorist attack on the East Coast.

>

>Nobody expects any high-tech solution will erase America's new sense of

>insecurity. But there are some innovative approaches that could find a

>place, and particularly promising are recent advances in low-dose X-ray

>scanning.

>

>A commercial "backscatter X-ray" system capable of seeing what's under a

>person's clothing -- including plastic weapons or explosives -- was

>installed in 1997 as an experiment at the Montana State Prison, a

>1,300-inmate facility at Deer Lodge, Mont.

>

>Warden Michael Mahoney says the prison is now scanning about 300 inmates

>twice daily as they move back and forth between work areas and their

>cellblocks.

>

>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/17/MN201831.DTL&ty

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>e=science

>

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