Re: Dosimeters and Airport Security

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 01/09/2003 9:17:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, magna1@jps.net writes:


> Therefore, an employer that requires an employee to travel, say by jet aircraft at high altitudes, is supposed to account for the high altitude exposure (not natural background, per se, but maybe enhanced by the high altitude of the flight) and the additional exposure from penetrating x-rays at the airport....really?



I think, and I'm not speaking for any agency, that the high altitude exposure would be considered part of the "natural background," but that the x-rays at the airport would not, although, if anyone actually gets a measurable exposure from the x-ray machines at the airports while passing through security, even a dozen times a month, I'll eat my hat.


Fortunately, no matter what the case, I do not own any hats.


Barbara