David,
While
this is no law against this type of scanning, the Conference of Radiation
Control Program Directors has come out against its use. See
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore
Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com
(H)
-----Original Message-----
From: David_S_Hyder@RL.GOV [mailto:David_S_Hyder@RL.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:04 AM
To: magna1@jps.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Franz - RE: X-ray of packages and containersFranz,You wrote:"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."
The forwarded e-mail to this list yesterday was of an image from Calais. The last time I looked at a map, France was in Europe. Would you please explain the "medical application" being used here. Seems to be a security issue in Europe too.
Thanks Dean,
David Hyder, CHP
(509) 373-9652
David_S_Hyder@rl.gov
Hanford's Facility Evaluation Board
-----Original Message-----
From: High Plains Drifter [mailto:magna1@jps.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:03 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: X-ray'ing packages and containers - the extremeA French customs X-ray reveals smuggled immigrants hiding in the back of a truck entering the port of Calais for passage to Britain. With thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan in anticipation of a US attack, British security is on high alert for illegal immigrants. Checkpoints are using high-tech equipment such as gamma and X-ray scanners, infra-red cameras and sensors capable of detecting even a heartbeat inside a vehicle."In science there is only physics; everything else is stamp collecting."
--Ernest Rutherford
