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Airport scanner: scientist say that the risk of getting cancer from it is the same as chance of a terrorist blowing up a plane

Washington, USA - It would take 5,000 trips through it to equal the dose of a single chest X-ray

The discussion on airport scanners is going on. The last word has been released by British scientists who have said the risk of getting cancer from an airport scanner "Is the same as chance of a terrorist blowing up your plane". But a US physics professor has moved to calm opposition to the scanners by insisting the risk of getting cancer from a single scan was about 1 in 30 million. Critics...

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Rome, Italy, 11/18/2010 23:41
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